In a wistful take on the first of Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, for example, Fung was on point where lightness was concerned and remained faithful to the composer’s intention of representing Vanitas vanitatum, loosely translated as the fleetingness of life. Zlatomir Fung in recital with Hong Kong pianist Rachel Cheung at Hong Kong … Read more
As It Happens6:21An Oscar changed everything for this public school instrument repair shop Steve Bagmanyan is putting retirement on hold — and he couldn’t be more thrilled about it. Bagmanyan is the supervisor at a warehouse in Los Angeles, where a small, but mighty, team of music lovers repair musical instruments for thousands of public … Read more
A stolen Hofner bass guitar belonging to Paul McCartney and used to record The Beatles’ first two albums has been found and returned after 51 years following a global hunt. The guitar, dubbed the “most iconic lost musical instrument of all time” by The Lost Bass Project, the team behind the search, was used on … Read more
Johannes Plenio / Unsplash The piano remains one of the world’s most loved and most played instruments. It’s a versatile instrument that can be used to make beautiful music by beginners and virtuosos alike, and it can accompany almost any instrument and perform in pretty much any genre. Many would-be pianists find it daunting to … Read more
Once upon a time, long before the Internet was envisaged, knowledge was less compartmentalized. A doctorate, for example, might encompass such seemingly diverse areas as philosophy, art history, German studies and philology. But, these days, a PhD student will typically submit a thesis on some narrowly defined subfield that investigates the minutiae of some … Read more
