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Frank Serpico to Al Pacino on why he didn't just take the payoffs, donate them to charity, and move on: "If I had done that, who would I have been when I listened to Beethoven?"
Al Pacino explains how he got tapped for "The Irishman" and what it takes for him to prep a role that's based on a real person. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscrib...
‘I struggle with the holier-than-thou attitude of purism that views music as a disembodied thing....’
Adventurous as a pianist and composer, Conrad Tao is reshaping the image of the piano virtuoso for the twenty-first century.
Balancing Act — Richard Goode - Steinway & Sons
Pianist Richard Goode discusses the forest and the trees of recording.
"Some commentators suggest Brahms approached the single-movement, freestanding choral work epitomized by Nänie as a way to channel his anxieties over competing with the choral symphony Beethoven had established decades earlier with his Ninth."
The beautiful stoicism of Brahms’s Nänie defies absolute categories.
Soundboard — Davell Crawford - Steinway & Sons
Davell Crawford on the rich jazz tradition of New Orleans, the fall of New York, moving forward, and employing the multiple personalities that live within you.
"Brahms was known to burn his music if it didn’t meet his expectations, and, like Schubert, constantly measured his music against Beethoven’s."
Snapshots in Time A cellist shares his favorite recordings — and one of his own.
Minimal Bowie - Listen. Music + Culture
On the artist’s classical penchants and collaborations
"Every doctor told me different things. They told me it takes six weeks. But I can’t pedal; I can’t play the piano as I wish. The funny thing is I was never injured —the running, figure skating, skiing, the swimming, and all these championships I was taking part in."
Aisa Ijiri on athletics and pianism
“...I’ve never thought about packaging the sound and selling the masses the beauty of the sound itself, because for me it’s false, I would say bijouterie — artificial stones instead of looking for real ones.”
Gidon Kremer delves into the roots of musical expression.
"Six months after its premiere, Mahler conducted Cavalleria in Budapest, and within three years it was one of the world’s most popular operas. “I was crowned before I was king,” Mascagni would later say."
Mascagni delivers beautiful music, libretto be damned.
Alexander Siloti - Steinway & Sons
Alexander Siloti - Steinway & Sons
Things That Go Bump in the Night - Listen. Music + Culture
Dvořák goes Grimm with his four symphonic poems on Czech folk ballads.
"Messiah was a success in its 1742 Dublin premiere, where a review described it as “the most finished piece of music.”"
After 250 years, we still sing ‘Hallelujah’ for Handel.
"A longing to return to the old style was always powerful in me; and I was forced to yield to that urge from time to time.’’
The composer’s Chamber Symphony No. 2 weds harmony and dissonance.
"There’s so much more to Haydn than the common stereotype of the jolly old ‘Papa.’"
Celebrating Haydn on the 200th anniversary of his death
Beyond the Halftime Show - Listen. Music + Culture
The American wind ensemble is quietly building a canon.
‘As listeners, we search for meaningful connections between what we’ve just heard and what might come next.’
Postmodern composers shuffled tunes long before the iPod era.
"What I want to hear in music are two of the most powerful aspects of the human condition: ‘I love you’ and ‘I forgive you."
A jazz master’s music seeks out the universal.
Same Hits, Different Day - Steinway & Sons
Living legend Billy Joel talks about the staying power of his music, the alchemy and process of songwriting, the origins of his aesthetic, Beethoven and the Beatles, and what he’s trying to learn now. By Ben Finane
Music in the Afternoon - Listen. Music + Culture
What Hemingway can teach us about performing-arts criticism teddy atlas manohla dargis
Sibelius Celebration - Listen. Music + Culture
Happy 150th Birthday, Jean Sibelius
‘But on the whole this concert confirmed the conviction held by many that while women may some day vote, they will never learn to compose anything worth while.’
A hopeless Romantic in a time of progress
‘We know Bach was a great improviser at the keyboard — as all performers were expected to be in the Baroque.’
A piano duo recasts works for voice as instrumental fantasies on a nocturnal theme.
‘I am convinced that opera — when it works — is the greatest art form that has ever existed on the planet.’
Rufus wainwright talks about his style, his sound, writing a song, writing an opera, restoring our collective dignity, judy garland, frank sinatra and william shakespeare. Listen Magzine Feature Interview
‘Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.’
— ERNEST HEMINGWAY
What Hemingway can teach us about performing-arts criticism teddy atlas manohla dargis
“It’s not a luxury, a lavish thing that we fund from leftovers of our budgets, not a plaything or an amusement or a pass time. Music is a basic need of human survival.”
Karl Paulnack's inspirational speech on music welcomes the parents of new freshmen at the Boston Conservatory.
Plus Ça Change - Listen. Music + Culture
Owning Shostakovich
A Portrait of the Artist — Paul Wyse - Steinway & Sons
Painist Paul Wyse repaints Pictures at an Exhibition.
Beer and Loafing in Norfolk - Listen. Music + Culture
A strange journey into the perception of alcohol for art’s sake.
"I never like this idea of the artist as servant to the music and to the composer. I’m not serving anyone."
Igor Levit on improvising; his ‘very direct’ and personal sound; and his love for Frederic Rzewski, Marina Abramovic, and voices beyond the classical canon.
The Art of Storytelling - Listen. Music + Culture
Yo-Yo Ma speaks of artistic principles, Bach as universalist, deepening our perception and appreciation, liberal arts as continuous learning, and the unlimited creativity of nature.
Mozart in Rosendal - Steinway & Sons
Reportage from Leif Ove Andsnes’s chamber music festival
“Perhaps with the centenary as a lynchpin, Barber’s music — and all the overt emotion and vivid virtuosity for which it stands — will be reshuffled into the slot in which it belong”
The American master has temporarily disappeared.
Sounds as Music - Listen. Music + Culture
Inside the work and philosophy of Helmut Lachenmann
"With the violin or any string instrument, you make the color. You affect everything. As a result, it is really so difficult to do it just right. Of course with the phrasing and the timing and the rhythm and the pacing: that is all very transparent. So the Mendelssohn Concerto for me is a perfect piece, as a concerto, and therefore more of a challenge. What do you do with a perfect piece? You have to give it justice in a way that works. The beginning of the piece, my God! How much more transparent can it be?"
Itzhak Perlman discusses teaching, Mendelssohn, color, chamber music, warhorses, interpretation, solo Bach, and his hair.
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