Classical Music
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Classical music and opera’s starriest and most important annual event will go forward, in modified form. Source
Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet is on a new album from the Takacs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson. Source
Michael Tilson Thomas’s long tenure leading the San Francisco Symphony has ended, with less fanfare than expected. Source
The young British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is bursting to the forefront of a field that lacks headliners of color. Source
We asked Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices. Source
The pianist livestreamed “Vexations,” a solo of four lines repeated 840 times, to evoke the crisis facing artists during the coronavirus pandemic. Source
A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works. Source
Once the coronavirus pandemic canceled concerts around the world, Timo Andres decided to reconstruct his recital as a series of YouTube videos. Source
Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year. Source
