Not so implausible, it turns out. The other day I was reading a review of a new life of Liszt by Oliver Hilmes that reveals “hair-raising episodes of drunkenness” in his later years. For some reason ...

Alexandre Kantorow was winner of the piano category at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition as well as the recipient of that year’s Grand Prix. One of the world's finest young pianists, he ...

The Musicians’ Club of Pomona Valley is sponsoring a concert of four-hand piano music 3 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 696 N. Gibbs St., Pomona. The program is free and open ...

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on May 25, 1854: Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to ...

Boston last week had six days of music by great Johannes Brahms. The first program began rather pompously with the Academic Festival Overture, a symphonic composite of German student songs written by ...

In the days of Strauss waltzes and the musical “grand manner.” every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt. Not all of them made it ; one who did was a ...