Who was the best pianist of all time? We asked 100 leading pianists to name the performers who have brought the most magic to ...
Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from manuscripts he unearthed and became a cultural hero in the U.S. after ...
In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...
The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...
Pires suffered a stroke last year and has now retired from the stage entirely. Virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin, ...
There's a lot of bad news out there about classical music -- slumping ticket sales in many cities, shrinking output from the major record companies, the so-called "graying" of the audience. Every now ...