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From George Harrison and Frank Sinatra to The Beach Boys, James Taylor and even 1990s Indian electro, we delve into Paul ...
Juventus have officially purchased Joao Mario from FC Porto for €11.4m plus €1.2m in ancillary costs, as part of the deal taking Alberto Costa the other way.
The Maria João Pires concert that was scheduled for June 18th, at Teatro das Figuras, in Faro, was cancelled due to a “slight stroke” that prevented the pianist from fulfilling the dates for the ...
French artist Sophie Calle and Portuguese classical pianist Maria João Pires have won Praemium Imperiale awards, Japan’s highest international art honours.
Maria João Pires in 1999, when she had learned the wrong piano concerto. Picture: Allegri Film “ She was shocked because she was expecting us to play another concerto,” Chailly recounted afterwards.
The 52nd Istanbul Music Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) under the sponsorship of Borusan Holding, will host world-famous pianist Maria Joao Pires. IKSV ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Hannah Reimann, founder of Stretto Piano Events, which seeks to make narrower instruments more widely available for musicians with smaller hands.
Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto featured Portuguese soloist Maria Joao Pires, a captivating, ethereal pianist. She played with a Buddha-like calm, alleviating Beethovenian angst with a kind of ...
Kate Molleson is in rural Portugal to visit pianist Maria Joao Pires, who's 80 this year. She learns about her career and her social work with children... and gets a piano lesson! Show more Kate ...
Maria João Pires didn’t realise she had prepared the wrong Mozart piano concerto until the orchestra started playing, to a live audience. We asked what was really going through her mind at that moment ...