The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis has an inspired way of opening their concerts with a student performance. For the program on Monday, April 20 at the 560 Music Center, a student group performed ...

Johannes Brahms was a quiet, private person, but he lived a full life, bearing a responsibility he didn’t want, a woman he ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

My mother, the mineralogist Daphne Ross, died on February 24th, at the age of ninety-one, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. It was late evening in Los Angeles when my brother called with the ...

Among those celebrated for their eloquence in the art of music, especially instrumental music, it’s worth noting how well they wielded the foreign art of language. It’s not surprising that the prose ...

In Now Hear This Season 7, Scott Yoo travels across Germany to unlock a window into the inner world of Johannes Brahms. Use ...

Johannes Brahms was and remains one of the most important and towering figures of the Romantic period of music. He rose from squalor as the son of a bassist and a seamstress. Brahms got his start ...

The series returns with a season that covers the great Romantic composer as well as subjects outside the traditional classical canon, from Scott Joplin to the music of Iceland.

Johannes Brahms, bewhiskered composer of four symphonies, has been cleared of one of the most serious charges ever levelled at a musical genius - the accusation that he was a serial cat slayer. For ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ...