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It’s the page turner’s fault
Several years ago, Mr. Kalichstein hired a young music student who kept reaching across the score to turn pages from …
The Anecdote to Distraction is Art
“If you are on a mission to discover what you have to offer, and to bring it out into the …
Tchaikovsky on Don Giovanni
Tchaikovsky, later in his life, reflected on hearing Mozart's Don Giovanni as a boy: The music of Don Giovanni was …
The musical mosaic
“Music is for me like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his …
Believe in Luck
“I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.”— Stephen Leacock, …
Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky)
Title: Sleeping Beauty Waltz Composer: Pytor Il’ich Tchaikovsky Arranger: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello and piano Product medium: PDF score and …
Page turning for Beethoven
Ignaz Xaver Seyfried was asked to turn pages for Beethoven in a performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto (5 April …
The shelf life of popular art
“The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared …
A mushroom anyone?
…everybody was possessed by the Russian passion for gathering mushrooms. Rivalries ran high, mushrooms were counted and compared, their beauty …
The effort is better than rest
“Writing music is seventy-five per cent an intellectual activity. This effort is often more pleasant for me than having a …
Mozart and Beethoven
“Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms …
The code of honor in great art
“In higher art, only that is worth being presented which has never before been presented. There is no great work …
A democratic orchestra
In 1920s Soviet Russia, musicians experimented mirroring the political state: “Just as the government didn’t need a tsar, so the …
Two paths for the future of classical music
Greg Sanders ponders the position of classical music and describes the need for it to catch up with culture, without …
Empty pockets
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale, American …