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I wanted to share with you this coda (concluding passage) from the ballet Giselle composed by French composer Adolphe Adam (1803 – 1856). I love this short piece (you can watch the full ballet here). As a bonus, I am including ..
Today I want to share the intermezzo from Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut. Thissoul-drenching intermezzo is the prelude to the third act of the opera (no words,just music). Here is what I suggest you do. First, watch Antonio ..
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was composed in 1803, when Beethoven was 33 years old, and 12 years after Mozart’s death. It falls in the middle of the shifting tectonic plates of Beethoven’s being stuck in the Mozart ..
At the beginning of each year, I sit down and reflect on the year that closed, looking for lessons to be learned and opportunities for improvement. I plan out what I personally want to achieve and set goals for IMA. One thing ..
Today I’d like to share with you music by British composer Henry Purcell (1659–1695). I have to confess I’m not a big fan of Purcell’s music; he’s a bit too baroque for me (maybe once I mature I’ll understand ..
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”― Sergei Rachmaninoff The first time I heard Sergey Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 I was twenty-two years old. I grew up listening to his second ..
Today I’d like share with you Serenade for Strings by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky. This piece was written for a strings-only orchestra in 1880. Tchaikovsky noted in in the score, “The larger number of players in the string ..
Today I’d love to share with you Johanna d’Arc, a symphony in four movements that has smitten me over the last few months. It was written by German composer Moritz Moszcowski, who was of Jewish-Polish descent (1854-1925). ..
Everyone knows that Beethoven wrote five piano concertos. Okay, not everyone. But if you are a Ludwig Von Beethoven junkie, you know that. Well, and everyone is wrong, kind of. Though officially Beethoven wrote five piano ..
Today I’d like to share with you Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4. After he finished it, he gave it the title “Tragic.” Schubert became one of my favorite composers later in my life. ..