I’m reviewing these two Chopin discs by a pair of young men together, even though there are lots of differences between their playing, and the way the albums have been put together. Yunchan Lim is ...
Blame it on the Beatles. That’s how Brazilian-born musician and composer Orlando Haddad, 61, explains his leap from Beethoven to rock. “I studied classical piano from the age of eight,” says Haddad, a ...
“Merry: A Holiday Journey” (NSS Music, $16.98): Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and her friends have come up with a brand-new genre-busting holiday treat here, performing classic holiday tunes with ...
From the bossa nova-by-way-of-Guatemala of Fabuloso and Los Skeepers, to the evolving torch singing of the Chilean-via-Mexico ...
Gilberto, who was a singer and composer, is considered one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova genre. The Portuguese word saudade [pronounced sau-DAH-jee in Brazilian Portuguese] has no translation in ...
Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. After coming together and playing to sell-out crowds earlier this year, four of ...