Cann has emerged in recent years as a leading interpreter of Price’s music, and her playing of the Concerto in One Movement ...

We thought the glissando from George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ couldn’t get any more epic – but then, we heard it in four-part harmony. Have a listen to this. The trill, scale and glissando in ...

When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a misdiagnosed brain tumor, his friend and colleague Irvin Berlin paid him a ...

Money, cigarettes and insane clarinet solos - here are 10 reasons why George Gershwin and his music had it all. 1. At his core, he was a pop song writer George Gershwin began hammering out pop songs ...

Originally from Macedonia, Clarinet Virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski, who now lives and works in New York City, will play two highly contrasting pieces—Mozart’s sublime clarinet concerto (the last concerto ...

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The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s program this weekend was a mixed bag, as the saying goes, but at least it was quite an interesting mix. Sunday’s concert at NJPAC opened with Joshua Weilerstein ...

George Gershwin has been a major inspiration to multi-instrumentalists and identical twins Peter and Will Anderson. “Gershwin was one of these gems in American culture where he just didn’t have any ...

Gershwin did it all as a composer — concertos, orchestral works, opera, musical theater, 318 songs, piano and film and chamber music. The son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Gershwin was one of the ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Newburyport Chamber Music Festival’s summer schedule offers a range of American classical voices, from Aaron Copland and musical hit maker Jerome Kern to abstract works by Elliot ...

The clarinet has a smooth, almost hollow sound, by turns cool and brilliant, with a dynamic range more remarkable than other woodwinds, possessing a haunting tone color in its lowest octave. When we ...