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When I listen to a jazz or classical record (or a folk record—not that I have more than two) it hardly matters how loud it is. As a recording it’s already a second-degree experience of the musicianship, without the spontaneity or theatricality of...
Grown Backwards is a record ripened with middle age, the sort of thing that your classical-music loving parents might record, if they had spent their younger years playing in one of the most revolutionary rock bands ever.
Fifteen years ago, violinist Nigel Kennedy blew hot air up the skirts of the somewhat dowdy old lady that is classical music with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He played sections fast, slow, ornamented. He played his own cadenzas. He had a punk’s...
Mann and Sandor are connecting with a long tradition of classical artists who have performed and taught well into their golden years. For centuries, classical music has been an art form that reveres its old masters, those gifted few like Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin and Pablo Casals whose performances, like...
Aging Grace Older classical artists continue to dazzle audiences with their technical wizardry