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Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky are my composers. What I mean by “my” is that I connect to their music differently on an emotional level than to the music of any other composers. I don’t like comparing composers – art is very ..
Today we will continue exploring Edvard Grieg’s lyrical pieces with Opus 54, No. 4, “Notturno.”
Today we are going to continue our exploration of Edvard Grieg’s lyrical pieces with Opus 12, No. 1, “Arietta.”
In the next few musical notes, I will share lyrical pieces by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Born in Bergen, Norway, Grieg lived during the time when Norway was under the rule of the United Kingdom of Sweden ..
Today, I’d like to share with you the overture from the opera “Oberon” by German composer Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1926). Weber lived a short life; he died at 40. In fact, he composed “Oberon” ..
On October 22, 2023, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra held a special concert “Salute to Israel” to honor the victims of the October 7th massacre. It performed Hatikvah and Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony “Eroica”. ..
Tchaikovsky composed six “numbered” symphonies, seven if you count Manfred, and eight if you count the unfinished symphony, which was supposed to be Tchaikovsky’s sixth numbered symphony. In 1889, four years before ..
Tchaikovsky composed this symphony in 1875, completing it in just a few months. Despite the pain that came with composing this masterpiece, he did not mention it much in letters to his friends, other than mentioning that ..
Today, I would like to share with you the Manfred Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. If you had asked me a month ago how many symphonies Tchaikovsky composed, I would have answered with a straight face: six! Number Six was his final ..
I am taking my entire family to see Turandot, an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini, today. This is my first time seeing this magnificent opera. I have heard arias from this opera many times, and I remember how I was captivated ..