Pianist Olga Kern. Time was not all that long ago when women classical pianists who were career performers were something of a novelty. For every Clara Schumann and Amy Beach, there were many more men with piano-playing careers, and it wasn’t until the latter part of the 20th century that this situation really started to [...]
Frederic Chopin, photographed in 1849, the year of his death. The next few years in the world of classical music are replete with bicentennial anniversaries of the births of several composers whose music fills much of the core repertory: Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin (1810); Franz Liszt (1811); Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi (1813). Look [...]
