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Far too many notes? Not for the great pianist with hands like giants’. Whenever I think of Sergei Rachmaninoff, I always also think of Thing, the…

Franz Joseph Haydn has been called "The Father of the Symphony" for his role in developing the genre in the second half of the 18th Century. With 104…

ADAM -Â HAS AUDIO [caption id="attachment_1805" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Anita Cerquetti"][/caption] Italian soprano Anita Cerquetti (b.…

The Recording Academy recently announced that it was making some changes to the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012. The restructuring amounts to a reduction in…

Rock star of your day, you’ve known many pianos and their mistresses. If YouTube had been around in Franz Liszt's day, he wouldn't have made his own…

Crouched in an accent – where else would we find you? Not in a major scale! No one did angular like Igor Stravinsky. Take the ballet Petrushka, for…

Music associated with nature has long been a popular theme for composers. Here's a brief look at some nature inspired works by musical artists who created…

O child of brilliance, your very inspiration blows out your bright flame. When in conversations with the parents of one's children's friends the subject…

A 1966 German-made documentary about pianist Artur Rubinstein has resurfaced. Artur Rubinstein in Hamburg is in German, as you would expect, but lets you…

The creative and inventive mind of Don Poynter (he invented whiskey-flavored toothpaste) turned to toys and gadgets and he is one of the many local...