Choral
'EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Gottschalk's Orchestral Dispatches from Ostrava Days 2015
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'REVIEW: Jazz Pianist Tigran Hamasyan Proffers Armenian Hymns on 'Luys i Luso'
Genre fusion clearly knows no bounds in the 21st Century. In 'Luys i Luso' ('Light from the Light'), jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan is peeling back the layers of the Soviet Union and "a hundred years of atheism" to reveal the most ancient, and so far, stagnant, motifs of Armenian hymns. -
'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with André "King of the Waltz" Rieu
By now, we all know André Rieu. That exceptional Dutch violinist and impresario who has made a name for himself, near literally, as the, quote, "King of the Waltz." However, if you've somehow not yet had the pleasure to take in all that maestro Rieu and his 60-piece Johann Strauss Orchestra (founded 1987) are about, you're in luck, indeed. This Tuesday, October 20, all that musicianship and magic that was on stage for Rieu and band's one-night-only "2015 Maastricht Concert" is coming to movie theaters all across this country.