The businessman Paolo Zampolli has counted Donald J. Trump as a friend for decades. In the 1990s, when Mr. Zampolli ran a modeling agency, he played...
Near the end of the lullaby that gives way to the blazing finale of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite, the music slows and thins to a whisper. In...
The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your...
A lonely schoolboy named Bertil makes a magical friend who goes by Nils in “Nils Karlsson Däumling,” a children’s opera by Thierry Tidrow based on a...
Bow down to the Vienna Philharmonic’s tremolo. This is the trembling, hazy effect that string players can make by lightly quivering their bows. Usually very quiet,...
When the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff returned home to Berlin after a recent performance in Chicago, he was distraught. The concert had gone well, but he...
Maria Luisa Tipo was born in Naples on Dec. 23, 1931. Her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, was a concert pianist; her father, she told The Baltimore Sun...
The renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas announced on Monday that he would scale back his engagements because of a recurrence of brain cancer. Thomas, 80, who...
A skilled musician can play pretty much anything. But notes on the page of a score are just a starting point. Beyond that, what makes an...
When two pianists appear together in concert, the usual setup is for the curves of their instruments to hug in a yin-yang formation. The musicians face...
