German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati gives a recital at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, performing music including Bach's French Overture in B minor and Alkan's Symphony for solo piano.

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — The Bard Conservatory of Music presents the seventh season of the Kurtág Festival, “Signs, Games & Messages,” honoring Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s 100th birthday. “Our ...

Part of the BBC Proms. Waltzes whirl through this programme, as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard present the first of two consecutive Proms pairing one of ...

General Motors Co. has cut a deal with Apple Inc. to bring the Apple Music app into Chevrolet and Cadillac models starting Monday, when the automaker will send it to vehicle owners with an ...

SINGAPORE – Mr Frank Benjamin, who helmed retailer FJ Benjamin for 63 years, died on Dec 10 at the age of 90. He was known for his knack of sniffing out new, in-vogue fashion brands each time older ...

‘Franklin is endlessly, endlessly interesting. He is the only Founding Father who evidently had a sense of humor, who was evidently human, who evidently had a sex life.” No, this is not a quip from a ...

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Young German-English baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu were a sensation of San Francisco Performances' 2022-23 season. "Dynamic contrasts, from stormy fortissimos to whispery ...

Saint Meinrad Archabbey Cultural Events, St. Meinrad, IN, will present baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu in recital on October 26, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. Central Time in the St. Bede ...

For Dieter—Hommage A Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Alpha Classics. In a draft epitaph for his friend Franz Schubert, the Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer declared that “he allowed poetry to sing and ...

On the whole, the Founding Fathers, those towering patriarchs, fared poorly when it came to sons. George Washington and James Madison had none. Thomas Jefferson’s only legitimate one died in infancy.

There were passages of seriousness: Gustav Mahler’s dolorous opener, leavened by the sunny and saucy Alma Mahler that followed, and Reynaldo Hahn’s touchingly ingenuous take on Bach, “À Chloris”.