The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will present three remarkable programmes this November and December, featuring ...

Grammy-winning pianist Emanual "Manny" Ax will perform a concert March 24 at SCPA to benefit a scholarship for student musicians. Susan Carlson had a problem. She wanted to find a world-renowned ...

“Yo-Yo and I, back in the fall, we're able to do some concerts on the back of a truck. We did 20-minute concerts in various places in parking lots for nurses, teachers and UPS delivery people,“ said ...

A novel approach to Mozart’s Requiem, orchestral works by Tania León and music conducted by Joe Hisaishi are among the highlights. Williams is best known for his grandly symphonic, Oscar-winning film ...

In Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Brahms travels in time, using ancient musical forms to explore possible futures. In Beethoven's Second Symphony, anarchic glee subverts Classical elegance.

After piling up seven Grammy awards, partnering with classical superstars such as Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern, and playing with most of the world’s great orchestras, pianist Emanuel Ax shows no signs of ...

Classical pianist Emanuel Ax is reflected in the lid of a Maene-Viñoly concert grand piano as he describes how it feels to play on the ergonomically curved keyboard. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and ...

Although his career as a concert pianist has lasted almost a half-century, Emanuel Ax has never acted like a star. When he takes the stage to invariably enthusiastic applause, Ax always acts a bit ...

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Full disclosure — and some readers may have gleaned this from my predilection for noise and peppered references to tinnitus — I spent more of my formative years in mosh pits than in concert halls.

Unlike many concert pianists these days, Emanuel Ax doesn’t show off. Instead, every gesture, accent and dynamic serves a purpose in fulfilling his conception of the score. Ax’s musicianship was on ...