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Today I wanted to share with you an incredible but forgotten gem: Concert Fantasia by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky composed it in 1884, and it was very popular for about twenty years, then virtually disappeared from the public ..
Listen on: iTunes | Google Podcasts | Online Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer and pianist. I don’t think you can talk about Liszt without talking first about the evolution of the piano. The piano you see today ..
I fell in love with Tchaikovsky’s music when I was well into my thirties. I am not talking about his ballets or even his first piano concerto. (I feel I consumed that concerto in tandem with my mother’s milk.) But I feel ..
Last year was a year of Camille Saint Saens and Franz Schubert for me. I have a much greater appreciation of their music today than I did a year ago. I’ve written a lot about Schubert (read it here). Today I want to zoom ..
Lately I have found myself completely hooked on Franz Schubert (of all addictions, not the worst one to have). I’ve shared with you his: Impromptus No. 3 Death and the Maiden Fantasia and his (finished) Symphony No. 9. These ..
“The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention”. – Franz Schubert A few weeks ago my father, my daughter Hannah, and I went to the Boulder Symphony ..
Today I wanted to share Fantasie in F Minor by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Schubert lived a very short life: when he was 25 he contracted syphilis, and at the time syphilis was a treacherous, painful death sentence ..
Today I wanted to share with you Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Number 6, called “Pathetique” (which translates from Russian as “passionate”). It was Tchaikovsky’s last symphony. He conducted its premier just nine days ..
In today’s musical note I want to share with you Danse Macabre (“Dance of Death”) by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. In this symphonic poem (music that literally tells a story) Death summons the dead from their ..
Lately I’ve been pondering on this question. At first, it was a subconscious decision. Somewhat by inertia, I was following in the footsteps of my parents. That’s what they did, and that’s what I’m supposed to do. However, ..