Nigel Kennedy made headlines last week for pulling out of a concert at the Royal Albert Hall when he was told he wouldn’t be allowed to play a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. KHFM listeners let me know that they were…
Percy Grainger: Composer, arranger, pianist, and… clothing designer? As it turns out, yes. For several years, the composer of Lincolnshire Posy and Molly on the Shore proudly created and wore his own wardrobe- made out of towels! In his words…
SYMPHONIC POEM = TONE POEM: Single movement work for orchestra in which a poem or program provides the basis for musical narrative. The term Symphonic Poem was coined by Franz Liszt.Richard Strauss preferred the label Tone Poem.The musical structure is…
Throughout the Leonard Bernstein Centennial, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story was by far the most performed work. According to Bachtrack.com’s 2018 statistical performance survey, Leonard Bernstein was the third-most played composer for the year, alongside Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and…
In the words of Linda Holzer (from an article at claviercompanion.com), “Florence Price, a child prodigy in music from Little Rock, Arkansas, scaled the fence of segregation, and soared beyond its limits.” She was a child prodigy who was denied…