Famously, Paul McCartney awoke from a dream one day with the melody to "Yesterday" already in his head, and completed the tune (albeit with "scrambled eggs" use ...
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Free choice of repertoire and an increased upper age limit part of the changes in a competition that will emphasise individuality and imagination ...
Only true classical music fans will ace this cello trivia quiz.
This month brings the nation's 250th birthday bash, "Les Miserables," Mark Morris, the World Cup final, Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium and nine nights of Bon Jovi.
The classical music tradition in the United States is borrowed from Europe. But few could have anticipated how European it would remain.
The French composer - a contemporary of Debussy's - wrote slender but perfectly-formed pieces of beguiling beauty ...
Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was 'transfixed' - as she told the composer when they played together decades later ...
The iconic song has been given a diverse new set of versions thanks to pianist Min Kwon's ambitious musical project ...
A newly found notebook documenting the composer's lessons with a student includes seven previously unknown compositions.
The crowning touch, of course, is Mozart's music, used frequently and well throughout the show.