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The Anoniazzi Influence Gaetano Antoniazzi, pupil of Enrico and Giuseppe Ceruti, brought the Cremonese tradition of his teachers to Milan in 1870. Gaetano Antoniazzi, along with his sons Riccardo and Romeo, trained Leandro Bisiach, and together with ... [continue reading]
Note: Part 1 of this article was published in Spring 2005. In contrast to the large, dramatic productions of dithyrambs, the lyric poets Sappho and Alcaeus emerge in the sixth century BCE . Both came from the island of Lesbos and composed their ... [continue reading]
Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, Op. 163, D. 956, was composed in his last year and completed only a few weeks before his death on the afternoon of November 19, 1828. It was not until twenty-two years later, on November 17, 1850, that the work ... [continue reading]
Toby Faber’s Stradivari's Genius makes a good read. The book seems destined to entice broader audiences into this normally arcane subject much the way the films The Red Violin and Amadeus do. But where those films make no attempt at or pretense to ... [continue reading]
Serious music programming is an ongoing challenge. Creating programs that are inventive, interesting and have a chance to sell well is increasingly difficult, considering that contemporary audiences seem to be neither as culturally literate nor as ... [continue reading]