Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from manuscripts he unearthed and became a cultural hero in the U.S. after ...

Slowly, solemnly Artur Rubinstein unfurled his arms and began to play the familiar melody. His nobly sloping brow tilted heavenward, his wispy white hair swirled about his dome like a wreath of cumulo ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

The idea of late style in creative works has long fascinated critics. Commentators have noted that for many artists and thinkers — from Beethoven to Einstein — the most groundbreaking, innovative, and ...

Oscar Peterson will always be remembered as one of jazz's greatest pianists thanks to an indelible career that spanned seven decades. An artist of prodigious technique, Peterson was influenced by the ...

Master piano technician Ulrich Gerhartz at Steinway's London workshop - Rii Schroer In the classical music world, a profession exists that feels as quaint as phrenology or book-binding – piano tuning.

There's a lot of bad news out there about classical music -- slumping ticket sales in many cities, shrinking output from the major record companies, the so-called "graying" of the audience. Every now ...

MIDDLEBURY Hearing a great pianist play Liszt can be very exciting, but not to the degree of experiencing a great musician performing Beethoven. Saturday s Middlebury College Performing Arts Series ...

The chief concert technician for Steinway & Sons gave Bibles to the world’s greatest pianists and told them about Jesus. Franz Mohr, former chief concert technician at Steinway & Sons in New York, has ...

Hailing from Brazil as one of the great pianists of the last half of the 20th century, he recalled masters of the first half in his virtuosity. But he shunned the limelight. By David Allen Nelson ...