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In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...

What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

It was a performance that Chicago pianist Norman Malone never thought would happen. Sure, he had been studying Maurice Ravel’s monumental Piano Concerto for the Left Hand for nearly 60 years. Through ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. You could arguably call it a facelift. After Charlotte Symphony's powerful ...

Concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy remembers the moment he decided the piano was for him. He was watching his friend play Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata”. “This is it,” he said. “This is what I want to ...

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel ...

Pianist, Nicholas McCarthy, who was born without a right hand, invites us behind the scenes as he prepares for his concerto debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Nicholas shares the story of ...

Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...