Don’t miss your chance to hear one of the most iconic pieces of music of all time: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. You have four chances: Thursday, March 19 (7:30 pm), Friday, March 20 (7:30 pm), Saturday ...
Certain pieces of classical music have legions of fans far beyond the concert hall. Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” has been in many movies, from “Apocalypse Now” to “The Blues Brothers.” If ...
Over the holidays, I had what I’ll call a spirited conversation regarding objective truth versus subjective truth. Since neither myself nor the other participants are professionals in the cognitive ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...
2020 marks 250 years since the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven and CPR Classical celebrates! Ludwig van Beethoven’s influence has permeated cultural consciousness through three intrinsically linked ...
Richard Nixon was an accomplished pianist, but the 37th president’s real contribution to serious music was his overture to China in 1972. As a result of that trip, the Philadelphia Orchestra would be ...