Decorated Musicians

This short feature from the BBC Music magazine has some interesting facts about the piano as well as a video on how a grand piano is built. Magnificent!

What is the secret of the enduring appeal of the music of JS Bach?! Even of you don’t like his music, the complexity of his writing, his output and his role as an innovator are unparalleled.  Pianist James Rhodes claims that Bach takes us into a “fourth dimension of existence.” Read more from BBC Culture.

Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim of the New York Times, writes about this form of ‘high-culture hooliganism’.  

Seven of Britain’s opera houses including the Royal Opera House, the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera, get together for a behind the scenes look at opera this Saturday May 10th. The four-hour event Inside Opera will be live streamed on YouTube. Read more. Inside Opera: Live will be livestreamed at theguardian.com/classical and…

Until yesterday, Michael Kaiser was the President of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. After 29 years spent running 5 arts institutions he has sat at his last board meeting and writes that he will “breathe a sigh of relief” when he leaves the board room for the last time. Read his…