With an online presence of more than 113,000 followers on Instagram, Ray Chen is not your grandmother’s violin virtuoso. Chen arrives in Atlanta this week to pl...
It’s 8:30 on a Monday night, and conductor Michael O’Neal is standing in front of a symphonic chorus of 145 singers at Roswell United Methodist Church. Looking ...
Beethoven didn’t really like composing songs, but his creative output includes 60 of them, many of which are settings of the great 19th-century German lawyer-po...
Soprano Julia Bullock has a dilemma. Opera is all about stereotypes aka fach -- role classification based upon a classical singer’s vocal and sometimes physical...
Some may say that classical art song is outdated, irrelevant to our modern times and lives. After all, it’s a musical form firmly rooted in the nineteenth centu...
Within his notorious Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gave us “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” in which the rooster Chanticleer learns the hard way that one should n...
In 2008, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti produced and recorded his Grammy-nominated concert recording, Chris Botti in Boston with the Boston Pops Orchestra. The form...
Every composer must have a muse, his raison d'être. For Robert Schumann that was Clara Wieck, the daughter of his piano teacher. Theirs was a forbidden romance,...
