Billboard Japan’s Women in Music initiative launched in 2022 to celebrate artists, producers and executives who have made significant contributions to music and inspired other women through their work ...
Concert pianist Benita Rose will perform at the Janesville Woman's Club, 108 S. Jackson St., this Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.
Gabriela Calderón Cornejo (left) and Astrid Morales Torres will perform a piano duet concert celebrating women composers at the Community School of Music and Arts. Courtesy Gabriela Calderón Cornejo.
Nobody laughed when an 11-year-old Mozart sat down at the keyboard to play what one critic described as “the longest and most difficult pieces with impressive precision.” Performing next, her younger ...
Manhattan’s Town Hall was cold and empty one morning last week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a ...
When Keiko Komaki moved to New Orleans from Japan in 2006, the pianist and B-3 player couldn’t speak English very well, but she knew how to play “Big Chief,” she says with a laugh. She let the music ...
The Harlem Renaissance attracted a lot of attention, but the Chicago Black Renaissance, which rippled throughout the 1930s to 1950s, remains mostly forgotten — along with some of the most prominent ...
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC) presents “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” a musical journey adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, Feb. 1-18 at The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St., Santa ...
He is the sovereign master of his piano; he knows all its resources; he makes it speak, moan, cry, and roar under fingers of steel,’ wrote one critic at the time.