- She was heralded as the girl who “conquered Tanglewood with 3 violins.” 14-year-old Midori stunned the audience at Tanglewood in 1986 by performing Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade” (after Plato’s Symposium) with Bernstein conducting. During the piece, her E-string broke and immediately borrowed the concertmaster’s Stradivarius. That E-string broke as well.
- CPR Classical Presents: The Rach 3! Rachmaninoff’s formidable Piano Concerto #3 is center stage when Russian pianist Nicolai Lugansky and the Colorado Music Festival with Music Director Peter Oundjian conducting perform the concerto in an all-Rachmaninoff program on Friday, July 7th at 6:30 p.m. at Chautauqua Auditorium.
- Where did Mozart get his musical talent? History has long pointed to his father, Leopold. Leopold was a violinist and authored an authoritative textbook on violin playing. However, pianist Katie Mahan argues that quite a bit of that prodigious talent likely came from Mozart’s mother, Anna Maria Pertl.