In March 1912, the famous violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe visited the home of his fellow musician Raoul Pugno in Paris. At the piano, Pugno played and sang through “La Ville Morte,” an opera he was writing with Nadia Boulanger, a mentee-turned-collaborator 35 years his junior. “Of this very private
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Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85
Roni Stoneman, a virtuoso banjo player, mainstay of the country music television show “Hee Haw” and one of the last surviving members of the Stoneman Family, a renowned Appalachian string band, died on Thursday at her home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. She was 85. Her death was confirmed by Julie Harris,
Oliver Anthony Music’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Stays No. 1
“Rich Men North of Richmond,” the out-of-nowhere viral protest song by Oliver Anthony Music, is the country’s No. 1 single for a second time, after playing a key role in last week’s Republican primary debate. “Rich Men,” a spare acoustic track uploaded to YouTube just weeks ago by the largely
Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity
Identity is something that all performers have to confront. Each time we stand onstage to deliver a text — literary or musical, or some combination of the two — we have a decision to make about its character, and about our stance toward it. How do we go about embodying
What Occurred to One in all Classical Music’s Most Common Items?
No matter Leopold Stokowski’s thirst for movie star, he was not identified for caving to viewers stress. Throughout his lengthy tenure conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, from 1912 to 1938, Stokowski gave the American premieres of scores as difficult as Stravinsky’s “Ceremony of Spring” and Berg’s “Wozzeck,” with little concern for
Tom T. Hall, Country Music’s ‘Storyteller,’ Is Dead at 85
He moved to Nashville in 1964 and signed a recording contract with Mercury shortly after the Cajun singer Jimmy C. Newman had a Top 10 country hit with his song “D.J. for a Day.” In Mr. Hall’s career as a recording artist, which spanned more than two decades, he placed