Nov 25, 2022
Along with Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek is known as one of the three great Czech composers. He was born in Moravia, part of the Austrian Empire at the time, and became passionately interested in studying the folk music of his Moravian culture. After World War I, when the empire collapsed and Moravia...
Nov 17, 2022
The center of Western Classical Music, ever since the time of
Bach, has been modern-day Germany and Austria. You can trace
a line from Bach, to Haydn to Mozart to Beethoven to Schubert to
Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner, and finally to Mahler. But why does
that line stop in 1911, the year of Mahler’s death? Part
of...
Nov 3, 2022
David Krauss is the Principal Trumpet of the Met Opera orchestra, and in this conversation, we talked about his beginnings on the trumpet, the differences between playing in a symphonic orchestra vs. an opera orchestra, how to manage the vast distances between singers, the conductor, the orchestra, and the...