Anyone who has had a child give a piano recital, or has played in one, knows the exquisite terror involved. Now imagine the performer is deaf. “Moonlight Sonata ...
Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata is the most popular piece of music to fall asleep to, according to a global sleep study. A fifth (20 percent) of UK respondents said the enduring 1801 piano work, known ...
Composed between 1801 and 1802, this popular piece is one of Beethoven’s best known piano works. Despite its nickname, in Beethoven’s mind this was never the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. Instead, the rather ...
Alicia Keys performed a heartfelt rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" for Kobe and Gianna Bryant's Celebration of Life ceremony at the NBA legend's old stomping grounds at Los Angeles'… By ...
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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Slowly spiralling chords in the right hand. Deep, sinking bass in the left. The opening to Beethoven’s ...
Seventy-eight years before Thomas Edison gave the world the light bulb, Ludwig van Beethoven composed “Moonlight Sonata,” one of the most popular compositions in classical music. I read somewhere that ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith Referring to the Beethoven piano sonata universally known by the evocative nickname “Moonlight” (Op. 27, No. 2), Liszt ...
Music has the power to bring people together. Think of the audience of relatives and friends watching a married couple share a first dance. Or a country’s national anthem being sung during war. A ...
In the days after Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020, the internet was flooded with tributes, memorial videos, and, of course, a fair share of misinformation. One video that drew a skeptical eye ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works. By Patricia ...
Sampling is a principle that's commonplace in today's modern music production world, yet the implicit understanding when using pre-made sample packs, loops and sounds, is that those original ...