Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

But the theme, 20 short variations and coda bulge with so much rhythmic and coloristic appeal that it's hard to imagine the music seemed so forbidding at its premiere. Ax gave Copland's explosion of ...

What makes Bach's Goldberg Variations tick? Pianist Jeremy Denk has a few ideas. From the comfort of his living room piano, he reveals how Bach's musical DNA — a simple strand of bass notes — is ...

2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Play Jane Fonda 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Set Design of a Play Derek McLane 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Sound Design André J. Pluess ...

The question of when to applaud in a classical music performance can be a source of anxiety for first-time visitors to a concert hall, but the matter can also be a source of levity. Such would at ...

"A musical mystery. Sir Edward Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' have confounded music scholars and music fans since its premiere. Elgar tells us that the theme is never actually played during the piece. So ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is the official album art for Frog’s “1000 Variations On the Same Song.” Loser music isn’t ...

In his elegant drama, "33 Variations," playwright Moises Kaufman leads audiences on an exploration into the hearts and minds of two passionate beings who, though separated by centuries, share an ...

Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed—it was news to him that his little girl could play ...

In 1983, a young concert pianist named Diana Dabby took a break from practicing for a solo piano concert and found herself absorbed by a journal she stumbled on in the library at Lincoln Center in New ...