Great love fest and concert last night for the ever-dignified and charismatic Harry Belafonte, the “High School drop out getting an Honorary Degree from Berklee.” At the age of 87,…
Category: <span>Milestones</span>
Celebrating Fryderyk Chopin’s birthday today with a gripping performance by pianist Hung-Kuan Chen, of the two Op. 62 Nocturnes. Chen played them in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio for a…
Easily the longest article I’ve ever seen in Billboard, but absolutely riveting. Further proof that the Fab Four virtually invented the “modern” music industry (at least, pre-Interwebs). And, it…
…..the world heard the premiere of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” I had the pleasure of sitting in an audience to hear the remarkable Gilmore Keyboard artist (and Berklee alum)…
The Corries offer up one of the most gorgeous songs by Robert Burns, born on 25 January 1759…
Think piece I wrote for WCRB Classical New England for this rather remarkable day on the calendar…\ November Numerology: JFK and the Musical Meaning of 11/22
With Anthony Trecek-King, the Boston Children’s Chorus, special guest Melinda Doolittle of American Idol fame, and our intrepid host Laura Carlo… Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., with the Boston Children’s…
2011 is the 100th anniversary of Scott Joplin’s groundbreaking (and ultimately tragic) opera Treemonisha. And after hearing a recording by the Max Morath Quartet on YouTube of the beautiful…
“So it has come to this: 200 years, 200 stories, and now our year of Chopin celebrations is out of time. And just what have we learned? To tell this…
So, for episode 100 of Radio Chopin, we thought we’d visit Chopin’s original home, in the Polish town of Zelazowa Wola. “Today, trees – and pianos – remain the…