‘We have to constantly stay curious’ Contrast and exploration define the work of French cellist Juliette Herlin. Hailing from Paris and now based in Texas, a thriving teaching practice alongside a demanding calendar of performance engagements, diving wholeheartedly into music
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Over the course of her life, Alma Mahler (1879–1964) enchanted a veritable constellation of influential men, not as a passive muse, but as an active, opinionated, and often volatile presence. A composer, muse, socialite, and sharp observer of the artistic
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Inspirations Behind Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit At the heart of Darius Milhaud‘s 15-minute ballet, Le boeuf sur le toit, was his trip to South America in 1919. Returning to Paris, he and his friends got together to
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Borenstein takes our perception of the mandolin (delicate, quiet, soft) and makes it into the soloist it always was. Since the mandolin is strung with the same 4 strings as the violin, Borenstein looked to violin virtuosos such as Paganini for his technical and expressive tools. Have a listen to his Mandolin Concerto!
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Few composers have been associated with sadness as consistently as Frédéric Chopin. Across his nocturnes, preludes, mazurkas, ballades, and other works, Chopin returned again and again to expressing emotions of longing and resignation. Those feelings were shaped by exile, chronic
