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This is an extraordinary performance by Daniel Barenboim who plays the Piano Concerto N° 5 by Beethoven while conducting the orchestra. ...

It’s three decades since the companions of  Ivan Doroschuk —of the Canadian Men Without Hats group—pranced around the village on their vir...

Most people are familiar with the situation of being overcome, emotionally, by the beauty of music performed by a symphony orchestra. Here, ...

After endless health problems (some of which were hereditary), Robin Gibb has finally left us, at the age of 62. During the '60s and ...

Contrary to what you might imagine, after glancing through my recent blog posts, I've been totally preoccupied, over the last fortnight ...

I belong to a generation of jazz enthusiasts for whom a revolution took place when the Dave Brubeck Quartet produced their 1959 Time Out a...

An unexpected advantage of owning an old automobile is that it often needs to be repaired, or at least undergo its obligatory annual checkup...

Monday morning offering from Gallica . A fragment of the Fugue in F minor of the Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti [1660-1725] is play...

The 67-year-old Israeli pianist and orchestral conductor Daniel Barenboïm has always appeared to me as a brilliant star of hope in our trou...

The choreographer Maurice Béjart , who died in Lausanne last Thursday at the age of eighty, was the son of a celebrated philosopher, Gaston ...

The dictionary informs me that one of my favorite French adjectives, ringard , came into existence at about the same time I first arrived in...

Popular French singer Grégory Lemarchal was 23 years old when he died a week ago of a terrible hereditary disease, cystic fibrosis , for wh...

This striking photo has the formal beauty of an image from Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible . We first encounter the finely-chiseled featu...