Czech composer Antonín Dvořák arrived in New York in 1892 to be the Director of a new music school and to help American composers create a uniquely “American” sounding classical music. He found plenty ...
Now that the Proms is over, what other classical concerts can we look forward to? There will be tributes to grandees of the ...
Beethoven began to write his longest and final Piano Concerto while Napoleon was bombarding Vienna in 1809; a situation Beethoven described as “nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.” ...