In instituting its series of mini-festivals this summer, the Aspen Music Festival and School is promoting the idea that a grasp of the context in which classical music was composed leads to a fuller ...

Robert Schumann was an unavoidable composer growing up with classical music. One of the giants, part of the civilizational core-curriculum of my Bildungsbürgertumish-youth: The symphonies (inevitably ...

The 200th Birthday of Clara Schumann takes place in September, celebrating the legacy of music this wonderful woman left behind. With her birthday approaching on Sept. 13, The New York Times published ...

Regular patrons of the San Francisco Symphony have known for the past few years that this set was coming, as Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra unveiled, one by one, live performances of the ...

Writing (co-writing) this book has given me an opportunity to combine these passions/pleasures, by taking Schumann’s own invaluable advice for the young musicians of his day, and updating it in order ...

With classical and contemporary artists, the Oct. 28-31 Madness and Music Festival commemorates the 200th anniversary of the German composer Robert Schumann's birth while at the same time exploring a ...

For our first selection tonight, perhaps it would be best if we first define the term “arabesque.” As some of you may know, an arabesque can be a complex pattern of intertwining lines, famously found ...

The tenor brings wonderful care and clarity to this collection that includes all of Schumann’s greatest song-cycles Robert Schumann’s “year of song”, 1840, is one of the miracles of 19th-century music ...

The LiveARTS String Quartet will perform works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schumann at the Franklin Historical Museum.