Pyotr (“Peter”) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Sugar plum fairies, dancing mice, a handsome prince... it's the ballet you know and love with a sound that defines Christmas music today. Fall in love with Tchaikovsky's most famous work again.
"Development is really the main thing in life, just as it is in music," says Leonard Bernstein in the fourth Young People's Concert; "because development means change, growing, blossoming out; and these things are life itself."
New York in February is a land of cold, rain, and gray -- no one’s favorite. But, when, like last Sunday, the cultural spigots are turned on full blast? There is nowhere else I want to be!
Nina Bernstein Simmons and Maestro David Stern reminisce about their fathers.
Leonard Bernstein, for me, was the greatest risk-taker in 20th century classical music.
