Cellist Trey Lee is the proud curator of Musicus Fest 2026, which will showcase 11 performances across Hong Kong from early November to mid-December. As founder of Musicus Society, he champions cross-cultural collaboration, heritage preservation, and nurturing young talent. This
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For some composers, falling in love was gradual; for others, it was like being struck by lightning. A performance, a chance meeting, a dinner party, or even a single conversation could leave these men completely captivated – and sometimes they
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Paintings in Carl Schimmel’s String Quartet No. 2, “Six Faces” The paintings in Carl Schimmel’s Second String Quartet, Six Faces, are all Cubist works painted between 1911 and 1920. The 4 women and 2 men are shown with their belongings:
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At the end of Beecham's 1958 Meistersinger Prelude, the crowd erupts. These live Berlioz and Wagner recordings from the Royal Festival Hall capture a conductor who prized "the dramatic and picturesque" above all. Have a listen!
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Classical music history remembers Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Dvořák, Wagner, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky as “great composers”: men who helped create the orchestral repertoire for a century, between the 1840s and 1940s. But women composers were also composing at the same
