Ever since the classical avant-garde became the rear guard, and polystylism became the watchword of the new avant-garde, I’ve been slowly building a library of modern...
Gavriel Lipkind is an Israeli-born cellist who now lives between Frankfurt, Vienna, and Miami. In early September, I spoke with him on the phone when he...
In the days of the silent cinema, pianists, and later pit bands, were recruited to provide improvised accompaniments to the action on the screen. As a...
Under the title Spanish Dances , pianist Fred Sturm has assembled a delightful collection of short pieces by Mompou, Turina, and Granados. Sturm’s career path is...
I have seen the opinion expressed that the operas of William Grant Still (1895–1978) are unjustly ignored and underperformed, especially in this country, because he was...
Most pianist interviews I’ve conducted for Fanfare have been either with young performers launching their careers or with midcareer artists engaged in some new recording project....
Soprano Louise Toppin is not only talented but plainly a multifaceted woman. Well regarded as a singer and educator (professor and area head of voice at...
Antony Cooke and Armin Watkins both live in Southern California. Cooke lives on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean almost midway between L.A. and San Diego....
