2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Play Jane Fonda 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Set Design of a Play Derek McLane 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Sound Design André J. Pluess ...

But the theme, 20 short variations and coda bulge with so much rhythmic and coloristic appeal that it's hard to imagine the music seemed so forbidding at its premiere. Ax gave Copland's explosion of ...

The question of when to applaud in a classical music performance can be a source of anxiety for first-time visitors to a concert hall, but the matter can also be a source of levity. Such would at ...

"A musical mystery. Sir Edward Elgar's 'Enigma Variations' have confounded music scholars and music fans since its premiere. Elgar tells us that the theme is never actually played during the piece. So ...

What makes Bach's Goldberg Variations tick? Pianist Jeremy Denk has a few ideas. From the comfort of his living room piano, he reveals how Bach's musical DNA — a simple strand of bass notes — is ...

In his elegant drama, "33 Variations," playwright Moises Kaufman leads audiences on an exploration into the hearts and minds of two passionate beings who, though separated by centuries, share an ...

Chinese pianist Lang Lang went from being just one more fresh-faced and precocious teenaged phenomenon twenty years ago with his debut recording on Telarc, Lang Lang (2001), featuring the heady ...

In the decades since Glenn Gould’s revolutionary 1955 recording, Bach’s Goldberg Variations have gone from an esoteric object of specialist interest to a ubiquitous rite of passage. Pianists today ...

Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed—it was news to him that his little girl could play ...