Sometimes a soloist simply dominates a concert. Sometimes -- like last Saturday night at the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra's concert, when Valentina Lisitsa proved that she deserves every ...

Valentina Lisitsa showed musical talent early, but she wanted to be a professional chess player. Music won out. Lisitsa will join the Spokane Symphony and conductor Eckart Preu this weekend for a pair ...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 season begins with a concert that combines the old (Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff) and the new ("Erasure Scherzo" by 30-year-old composer Ted Hearne), but what ...

Frank Ocean, a singer affiliated with the notoriously laddish rap collective Odd Future, made headlines last week when he revealed that he once fell in love with another man. Call it a publicity stunt ...

But with so much available to watch and hear free, what's the point of recording and selling music? For Lisitsa, it's an "investment in the future." Her YouTube channel has helped her book concerts ...

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How big does a mess outside the concert hall need to get before it affects what happens inside? Let’s talk about this piano soloist and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO). I know a conductor who ...

How much would you bet on your ability to sell something for which you had not found a buyer in spite of years of unstinting effort? Would you bet your house? That was the question facing the ...

Will Valentina Lisitsa be remembered as the classical pianist with “the ugly tweets” or the pianist “who fought and perished for freedom of speech?” That’s what the Ukrainian-American artist was ...

The arts like to pride themselves on being "challenging". They "speak truth to power" – meaning not just political power, but the power of received, lazy ways of thinking and feeling. People in the ...