/tags/piano-music piano music en-US Copyright Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:42:17 GMT /2023-07-13/new-recording-features-mexican-romantic-piano-works A new recording of Mexican piano concertos and solo piano works, Conciertos Románticos, exemplifies the rich blend of late-romantic European classical and traditional Mexican musical idioms from before the Mexican Revolution. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:42:17 GMT /2023-07-13/new-recording-features-mexican-romantic-piano-works Jennifer Hambrick /2022-11-07/world-premiere-of-rocco-di-pietros-the-childrens-journey How does a child navigate the hardships and heartaches of a world run by adults? Columbus composer Rocco Di Pietro grapples with this and other questions about the dark side of childhood in his piano work The Children’s Journey. Acclaimed pianist and contemporary music specialist Kathleen Supové will perform the world premiere of The Children’s Journey in Columbus on Nov. 15. Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:49:14 GMT /2022-11-07/world-premiere-of-rocco-di-pietros-the-childrens-journey Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2020-11-11/noted-pianist-makes-new-recording-at-home-during-covid-19-lockdown “For me, making music felt inadequate.”That’s what noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein said about the days she spent in lockdown last spring, as the… Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:29:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2020-11-11/noted-pianist-makes-new-recording-at-home-during-covid-19-lockdown Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2020-08-21/new-book-chronicles-chopins-independent-spirit He composed music for a single instrument–the piano–at a time when other composers were writing works for monster concerts. His personal life was quiet,… Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:22:47 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2020-08-21/new-book-chronicles-chopins-independent-spirit Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2019-10-15/pianist-revives-the-music-of-holocaust-survivor-karol-rathaus-in-new-recording-series “It was dark, unsettling. And it, in a way, kind of reflected my own family’s dark history.”That’s how the music of Austrian-born Holocaust survivor Karol… Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:56:47 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2019-10-15/pianist-revives-the-music-of-holocaust-survivor-karol-rathaus-in-new-recording-series Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2019-08-14/new-recording-shows-the-power-of-music-by-women-composers There was a time when a woman composer was a relatively rare phenomenon. There was also a time when music critics drew a clear line between "masculine"… Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:04:07 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2019-08-14/new-recording-shows-the-power-of-music-by-women-composers Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2018-12-04/round-tones-pianist-simone-dinnerstein-discusses-her-recording-circles “I think that he’s kind of like the grandfather of it all.”That’s what pianist Simone Dinnerstein says about Bach, a composer for whose music she has a… Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:45:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2018-12-04/round-tones-pianist-simone-dinnerstein-discusses-her-recording-circles Jennifer Hambrick /show/the-american-sound/2017-02-02/kitschy-candelabras-laugh-with-some-of-the-greatest-musician-comedians-of-all-time As the saying goes, laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.And — hello? — who wants to cry alone?That’s why The American Sound this… Thu, 02 Feb 2017 18:30:00 GMT /show/the-american-sound/2017-02-02/kitschy-candelabras-laugh-with-some-of-the-greatest-musician-comedians-of-all-time Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2017-01-27/benedict-cumberbatch-is-in-everything-even-classical-music A couple of years ago, The New Yorker published a cartoon by Joe Dator that truly catches the spirit of our times.In the single panel, a pregnant woman… Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:00:00 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2017-01-27/benedict-cumberbatch-is-in-everything-even-classical-music Jennifer Hambrick /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2017-01-26/veteran-columbus-piano-technician-ben-wiant-in-the-spotlight-with-honors-and-chinese-art Behind every great piano and every great pianist is a technician on whom everything depends. For most of the last half century in Columbus, that piano… Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:30:00 GMT /show/classical-music-with-jennifer-hambrick/2017-01-26/veteran-columbus-piano-technician-ben-wiant-in-the-spotlight-with-honors-and-chinese-art Jennifer Hambrick