Mozart never made it to America: getting seasick crossing the English Channel put an end to any of his seafaring fantasies. But America was frequently on Mozart's mind. In fact, his closest ...
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine. Photo by Andrew Eccles. Courtesy of rachelbartonpine.com. What makes Mozart’s violin concertos so special? Is it that he only wrote 5 of them? That he wrote him when he ...
Brendan Slocumb remembers that moment that classical music just clicked for him. BRENDAN SLOCUMB: The first piece of classical music that I heard was Mozart's "Symphony No. 40." (SOUNDBITE OF ...
Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble Who was it who said that two of the ...
Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for ...
Catch The Mozart Minute every Friday at noon during the Amadeus Deli, and listen to The Mozart Minute podcast at wosu.org/podcasts. For all the partying Mozart seems ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A scholar dared to complete violin sonata fragments left by the great composer. They’re featured on a new album. By Zachary Woolfe For a musician, ...