This is the grave of Gioachino Rossini. Born in 1792 in Pesaro, which was then in the Papal States, but now of course is in Italy, Rossini did not grow in real wealthy circumstances. His father was a well-known trumpeter, but it's not as if...
classical music
This is the grave of Samuel Barber. Born in 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Barber grew up as part of the early 20th century elite. His family went back generations.
This is the grave of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Born in 1873 in Russia, Rachmaninoff came from one of the nation's oldest and most elite families. Many members of his family were.
Few workers have it worse than those in the classical music industry. At the best of times, there's not much money. Even though they have good unions, they just don't have a lot of bargaining power. And to say the least, an era when you...
This is the grave of Artur Rodzinski. Born in 1892 in Split, in what is today Croatia, Rodzinski grew up in the elite of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father.
This is the grave of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. Louis Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 to Ukrainian Jewish immigrant parents. The family was upwardly mobile.
The great composer and conductor and general prophet of modernism in music has died at the age of 90.
I certainly don't care about the fate of most record labels, but streaming services increasingly make it difficult for musicians in less popular genres like jazz or classical to survive..
The great composer has passed at the age of 103. Here's a recording of his 1976 piece "A Symphony of Three Orchestras," performed by Pierre Boulez and the New York.
We've seen a lot of coverage of lockouts lately because professional sports league owners have used the tactic to try and wring major concessions out of unions. But it is an increasingly common phenomenon around the nation. Emboldened bosses see the end of their hated...
No day is complete without Soviet propaganda. This translates as "The path of talent on Capitalist shores / The path of talent on Socialist shores" And let's face it, it's.