This Month's Exploring Music
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This Month's Exploring Music
Early But Inspired
In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi, and Jascha Silberstein performed the complete string trios of Beethoven to honor the sesquicentennial of the master's death. Fortunately,...
Early But Inspired
In February 1977 the new ensemble of Erick Friedman, Emanuel Vardi, and Jascha Silberstein performed the complete string trios of Beethoven to honor the sesquicentennial of the master's death. Fortunately,...
BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets
Featured Recording: Janacek: The Two String Quartets - The New World String Quartet I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as amazing as his music. Through most of his...
BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS: Janacek's Two String Quartets
Featured Recording: Janacek: The Two String Quartets - The New World String Quartet I find Leos Janacek's life story almost as amazing as his music. Through most of his...
Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer
At an age at which most of my contemporaries have retired to Florida or some other lotusland, I have begun a new career: I have become a music critic. Not,...
Reviewing A Reviewer by A Reviewer
At an age at which most of my contemporaries have retired to Florida or some other lotusland, I have begun a new career: I have become a music critic. Not,...
Figures in a Revolution
Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....
Figures in a Revolution
Musically speaking (not necessarily in honied tones), a virtuoso nowadays is a performer who can play very fast and who, to the popular mind, looks generally like "Professor" Irwin Corey....
Bad Press And It's Not Even Twelve Tone
Some 15 years ago, a major music publication (it may have been the august Schwann catalog, only I'm not fully sure) conducted a survey of its readers to determine the...
Bad Press And It's Not Even Twelve Tone
Some 15 years ago, a major music publication (it may have been the august Schwann catalog, only I'm not fully sure) conducted a survey of its readers to determine the...
One Full of Splinters, The Second "Unconsciousl...
The first time that Sergei Prokofiev encountered the artistry of David Oistrakh was at a concert in which the then 18-year-old violinist played the master's First Violin Concerto. The irascible...
One Full of Splinters, The Second "Unconsciousl...
The first time that Sergei Prokofiev encountered the artistry of David Oistrakh was at a concert in which the then 18-year-old violinist played the master's First Violin Concerto. The irascible...