Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
Way beyond candlelit dinners, Romantic-era composers fascinated new audiences with extreme musical tales of love, death, nature, and the supernatural.
If 2020 is good for anything, it’s freeing up time for that all-important musical ingredient – practice. If that’s not enough motivation in itself, these memes will be.
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As the Classical period took over in the mid-1700s and the Baroque era was winding down, a few defining characteristics emerged.
Vladimir Horowitz Live at Carnegie Hall—some thirty hours of music—doesn’t include every performance the pianist played there (he made his house debut in 1928, more than a decade before the invention of magnetic tape would have permitted such sustained recording) but offers extensive documentation of performances ranging from 1943 through 1976.
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Clive Barda has been photographing musicians, singers and stage performers for 43 years. To honour his extraordinary career, the Royal Opera House is showcasing some of his best photographs in a retrospective exhibition. Here, he picks some of his favourite images of musicians and tells us about them.
What’s killing classical music? Here’s a list of all the things that were supposed to finish it off, going back centuries. So far, all have failed.
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Although most pop and rock listeners might not think it so, many songwriters have drawn on classical music . . . and not just for inspiration, but sometimes quite directly grabbing at the melodies. We're not talking about Deodata offering his electro-treatment of Strauss' Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Love Sculpture's flat-tack guitar workout on Sabre Dance (by Khachaturian), or even
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