Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Opus 2
My grandson called me on Saturday. As usual we talked about music. He told me that he had recently played for a well-known person at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. I asked my grandson …
Beethoven Archive
21 June, Vienna Philharmonic Concert
Yes, I would love to attend this concert. Here are the details: Venue: Grossermusikverinsaal (Great Hall of the Friends of Music) Address: Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria Date/Time: Tuesday, 21. June 2016, 7:30 PM ARTISTS: …
Milstein, Marketing, and Mendelssohn
Recordings in the CD format will soon be obsolete. In the future, all music will be downloaded or heard on-line. As such, Marketing firms are struggling to get attention for their classical music recordings. It …
Beethoven’s #4 and #7
The symphonies number 3, 5, and 6 by Ludwig van Beethoven set the music world on fire. To this day, these great symphonic works by Beethoven are certainly crowd pleasers. On this recording we hear …
Playlist: Scenes from Nature
Composers have frequently found their inspiration to write great music based on having experienced a variety of scenes in Nature. For some it was the Vienna Forrest; for others, it was a stream or a …