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'Stephen Hough Compliments Justin Bieber's Fur Elise?

Sure there were no lack of performers willing to wax poetic about the recent passing of David Bowie, but not many serious artists were willing to weigh in on Justin Bieber's impromptu performance of Beethoven's miniature Für Elise on the lobby piano of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Interestingly, famed classical paints Stephen Hough had no problem complimenting the Biebs playing as complimenting his vocal style. For those interested in hearing Hough play, the 55-year-old Brit returns for to the 92nd Street Y for chamber music with cellist Steven Isserlis March 15.
By Shane Jordan

  • 'Professor Says that J.S. Bach's Wife Wrote Some of His Most Famous Works

    Australian professor Martin Jarvis proposes that Anna Magdalena Bach actually wrote the Cello Suites and several other of Bach’s masterpieces.
    By Louise Burton

  • 'Remembering Sir John Tavener (1944-2013)

    Not many modern composers have made it into the wider consciousness. Sir John Tavener, who died yesterday aged 69, was one of the few. What does one mean by "the wider consciousness?" Western cultural circles, certainly--the kinds of people who would go to art galleries or plays, but not necessarily many concerts, would still have heard of Tavener. And he even shined his light into the lives of those who rarely (or never) crossed the door of a classical music venue. His Song for Athene, when played at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997, was a comfort to a nation's grief.
    By James Inverne
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