Music and Arts

The lives of the great composer have always been used as raw materials for writers of fiction, be it novels, plays, or screenplays. Over ...

With so much of the serious biographical material on Robert Schumann available only in German, a noteworthy book on the composer in Englis...

The Han-Setzer-Finckel Trio was in town yesterday as part of the Friends of Chamber Music series of concerts. The trio, comprising pianist...

Taiwanese cinema has come a long way since its very humble beginnings. From films made under Japanese colonial rule in the first half of...

If you haven’t seen the 1978 movie The Boys from Brazil , I can tell you that it is a most exciting and enjoyable film. Based on the n...

On January 15 th , 1961, a young conductor named Zubin Mehta arrived in Los Angeles to rehearse the Los Angeles Philharmonic in preparati...

When pianist Glenn Gould recorded the piano music of Jan Sibelius, the pianist experimented with what he termed acoustical “orchestration....