Johannes Brahms' most lucrative compositions were appropriated from Hungarian Gypsy bands. In his Hungarian Dances, he adds romantic elements to popular Gypsy tunes. The Budapest Festival Orchestra ...
WE started this month's columns with Brahms, and before I take any more earbashing and am flayed alive we will finish the month's columns with the same composer, and square things up a bit. The issue ...
Joszef Lendvai Sr. plays the gypsy violin, while Oszkar Okros is a master of the instrument known as the cimbalom. Together, the two musicians — teaming up with the Budapest Festival Orchestra — put a ...
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NEW YORK — A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. In both, the strings play with mutes, creating ...
The KCCNYxSPO’s “Online Orchestra Concert” program presents a new VR Orchestra concert series with a goal to provide effective materials for music education. SPO and EBS have produced a high quality ...
LENOX — If audiences for classical music weren't audiences for classical music, there would have been dancing in the aisles in Ozawa Hall. From the exotic country named Brooklyn came The Knights on ...
Johannes Brahms is not known for his sense of humour, but his Second Symphony is downright funny. Its lilting themes and exuberant turns have given it a reputation as a "pastoral" symphony (the kind ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance Review By Alastair Macaulay As soon as American Ballet Theater introduces mixed bills to its repertory, the whole climate improves. The company ...