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When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker hit the road with Bob Dylan in 1965 to shoot a documentary of the musician's tour of England, he was unaware that he would make history. For one, Pennebaker barely knew who Dylan was. In addition, he couldn't have predicted that his Spartan black-and-white documentary, which eschews traditional storytelling techniques such as narration and interviews, would be hailed as the greatest rock documentary of all time. Forty years after its debut, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back has been lovingly remastered and will be released this week as a two-disc...
When Joyce Hatto died last June at the age of 77, the classical music world mourned the loss, it thought, of one of its most talented, and reclusive, pianists. Obituaries reported that the musician retreated from concert recitals after being diagnosed with cancer in the early 1970s but, over the next 30 years, Hatto recorded more than 100 CDs of virtuoso performances in a private studio near her home in Royston, England. The recordings, published by her husband William Barrington-Coupe's small Concert Artist label, wowed critics, one of whom called Hatto in 2005 the "greatest living pianist that...
...most recent band, the Dixie Belles, until she was in her 90s; in Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response to a Down Beat magazine article that had detailed the inferiority...
Composer Aaron Copland once said, “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” But in the poor, remote areas of Russia and Ukraine, becoming a musician, even for talented children, is closer to the unrealizable than Copland would have thought. Enter the Guzik Foundation, a million-dollar scholarship program founded in Palo Alto, California by Russian-born industrialist Nahum Guzik. The foundation supports the artistic endeavors of a small group of talented musicians selected by competition. The best of these become Guzik Foundation Award Winners...
...same time I plan to move to New York. No grad school, just concerts full time. I mean, New York, at least in the U.S. is the center of classical music, and it’s really the place to be if you’re an aspiring musician. So that will be very exciting. Obviously, I’ve met incredible people here and that’s been the best part of my experience at Harvard. So I’m sad to be leaving that, but at the same time, once I graduate, it will...