With Prizes and a Rainy Performance at the Olympics, a Pianist Rises
The 27-year-old musician Alexandre Kantorow has rapidly received worldwide attention. That hasn’t changed his approach to ...
Garth Hudson, master instrumentalist and last surviving member of The Band, dies at 87
AHudson was a classically trained performer who played piano, synthesizers, horns and his favored Lowrey organ.
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Best Bets: Pianist Inon Barnatan Joins New Century Chamber Orchestra For Berkeley, Rohnert Park, San Francisco Concerts
Music director Daniel Hope and the New Century Chamber Orchestra are harnessing the talents of renowned pianist Inon Barnatan ... speak to each other across time," Barnatan says, "and I hope ...
It's all first-time nominees for the Best Director Oscar - for the first time in 27 years
All five Academy Award nominees for Best Director on Thursday - Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Sean Baker for Anora, Jacques ...
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Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art ... brought in a band. All of a sudden, the room was a jazz club, and McLean’s pianist, LaMont Johnson ...
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100-year-old piano virtuoso Ruth Slenczynska is the last surviving pupil of Sergei Rachmaninov
On Monday 15 January 2025, American pianist ... all 24 Études before breakfast every morning by her father, Josef Slenczynski, who was a skilled violinist. She would subsequently earn a reputation as ...
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Jazz Off the Record
In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music ...
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Alicia Keys, Jon Batiste and Cory Henry Among Nominees in the Annual Pianote Awards - Voting is Live
It offers innovative learning tools, world-class content, and a vibrant community for pianists of all levels—the Pianote Awards honor excellence and innovation in piano music annually.