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Today I would like to share with you Romance for Viola and Orchestra, by German composer Max Bruch (1838-1920). The viola is the violin’s more petite and sadder cousin. My niece Irene studied the violin ..
Someone recently asked whether I think of myself as Russian, or American. My initial response (without thinking) was – American. But as I gave this question more thought I realized that the answer is more complex. First ..
Today I would like to share with you two overtures, one from the opera The Marriage of Figaro, composed in 1786 by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the other from the opera The Barber of Seville, composed thirty ..
Not until I started to include musical notes with my emails and started to write and think about it did I realize what an important role music plays in my life. Sometimes certain musical pieces almost serve as a bookmark ..
Today I’d like to share with you a very short excerpt from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice, by German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), arranged by Italian composer Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914). This is the most ..
Today I would like to share with you Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Beethoven wrote this concerto in 1803, under the spell of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Beethoven paid tribute to Mozart’s ..
Today I’d like to share with you Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Brahms was born six years after Beethoven’s death and, just like the rest of the European musical establishment, has lived in Beethoven’s ..
I was ten years old; my oldest brother, Leo, was 20. He entertained girls at our house, and they listened to Joseph Haydn (Austrian composer, 1732-1809) and looked through books with paintings by Hieronymus Bosch (16th-century ..
You can listen to this article on: iTunes | Google Podcasts | Online Six years ago, at her preschool graduation ceremony, my daughter Hannah was asked what she wanted to become when she grew up. She thought for a second, ..
I have shared Prelude in B Minor by JS Bach before. But today I would like you to go with me on a little journey. (I did this to my wife and kids yesterday, and they loved it). I’d like you to listen to this performance ..