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...grown up with pop music, I find it hard to enjoy classical music. What can I do about this? -James Jiang, Norwich, U.K.I don't think that if you listen to pop music, you can't enjoy classical. Find something very popular to listen to first--piano pieces by Chopin or something like Swan Lake--and then you can move on to Mahler or Wagner...
...most difficult question because there are so many great works and so many wonderful composers. To choose one piece is really tough. I prefer something with lots of emotion, with lots of colors and lots of melodies. The Russian classics. Some of Mozart and Beethoven's early works, Chopin, Liszt. They're the ones I play most often...
...Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc set, WILLIAM KAPELL REDISCOVERED. Here, Kapell powerfully revisits some of his previously recorded repertory, especially Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky, and displays a deepening mastery of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy. Preston, alas, was no audio engineer; his recordings hiss and crackle. But fortunately only the sound of the piano is marred. Kapell's talent comes blazing through...
Even on a gray day in Paris last week, there was one place you could find a crowd of tourists from places as varied as Rome, Siberia and Orlando, Fla.--Jim Morrison's grave in Père-Lachaise cemetery. Forget Frédéric Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and the hundreds of other luminaries interred among its chestnut trees. The frontman of the Doors has been the cemetery's headline draw ever since the rock star's untimely death in Paris at the age of 27 in July...
...rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids - Mozart in the style of Joplin; Culture Club's Karma Chameleon as Chopin might have played it; Handel's Water Music with a ragtime twist. "Very few musicians can do what he does," says Roger Huckle, the Emerald Ensemble's director. "It's very rare to have the flexibility of a jazz player coupled with the fine technique of a classical musician...