Tag: composer

Barry Manilow, Now a Broadway Composer With “Harmony”

Over his long career Barry Manilow has earned fifty Top-40 hits, along with...

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Stars Record a Tribute Album to Henry Mancini

In honor of the composer's centenary next year, the family of Henry Mancini...

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8 of the most beautiful works by Rachmaninoff to play o...

In this article, we have selected for you eight of the most beautiful works...

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Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations (Johann Sebastian...

Glenn Gould plays extracts from Bach's Aria with 30 Variations BWV 988 also...

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Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein: Bach's Keyboard Conc...

Glenn Gould was 28 years old here. For the impatient, Gould's performance b...

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6 Pianists on Glenn Gould

40 years after his death, Glenn Gould continues to inspire and irritate.

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Famous Pianists Play on the Composers' own Pianos

Some famous pianists (András Schiff, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Zoltan Kocsis, E...

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Why Listen to Liszt?

A guide to the life and works of pianist and composer Franz Liszt, and what...

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How Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers

Juliette Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher and conductor. She taug...

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Lili Boulanger - Piano Works

All the works for piano solo by Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) performed by pia...

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Music's Greatest Loss: Why Listen to Lili Boulanger

Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger was a French composer and the first fe...

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Why Listen to Mahler?

Gustav Mahler has been one of my favorite composers since I discovered Clas...

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Satie's Furniture Music: Designed to be Ignored?

What is Satie's Furniture Music, and did it give birth to modern-day Muzak,...

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A Complete Introduction to J.S. Bach

A look at his life works - the Orgelbuchlein, the Well Tempered Clavier, th...

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Why Is Mozart Genius?

Why Mozart is widely considered a genius - the greatest musical genius to w...

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