In Reference to Murder

Your Sunday Music Treat

Classical music may seem staid to today's younger generations, but in its day, it was often revolutionary. Beethoven's famous Egmont Overture is a perfect example. Egmont celebrates the life and heroism of the Dutch nobleman, the Count o...

Sunday Music Treat

Cécile Chaminade (August 8, 1857 - April 13, 1944) was a French composer and pianist who came from a musical family. It was still rare at the time for a woman to be a performer, let alone a composer, even though family friend Georges Biz...

Blood on the Keys

Back in my piano days, I played a piece called "Lotus Land" by English composer Cyril Scott (1879-1970), which utilized what was then (1905) a novelty - glissandos on the black keys. Those glissandi were almost my undoing, as I kept leav...

Sunday Music Treat

Since Valentine's Day is tomorrow, I thought it would be fitting to feature the popular Liebestraum (Dreams of Love) No. 3 by Franz Liszt. Here's a performance by Lang Lang:

Sunday Music Treat

July marks the birth anniversary of Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor, Ernst von Dohnányi (July 27, 1877 - February 9, 1960). Although he wrote in various genres, he composed primarily for the piano, including the witty Variatio...

Media Murder for Monday

MOVIESDirector Lynne Ramsey signed Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbender to star in her upcoming project Jane's Got A Gun, and Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty) is also in talks to join the cast. The film follows a woman who is forced ...