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Classical music
I grew to revile the opening rustle of strings, the ‘Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside’
The film’s gender politics reveal the long shadow of the European canon
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
Why is the Kennedy Center discriminating against a Catholic trumpet player?
Ralph Vaughan Williams is caricatured as a populist purveyor of ‘folky-wolky’ melodies
Both in Pittsburgh and Miami, I was struck by the rousing enthusiasm that the symphony and soloists evoked with their temerarious playing
The Goldbergs are a nightmare for pianists and only very few have managed to its sense of virtuosic fun without tripping up
Dismissed as a dime-store Shostakovich, then praised as a major modern composer
