by Paul E. Robinson

SUMMER FESTIVALS
Round Top Festival Institute, 2010
Never underestimate the dreams of a concert pianist – especially those of an adopted son of Texas!

Van Cliburn, you say? Yes, he had an impossible dream and realized it when he won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, but there [...]

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by Paul E. Robinson

Classical Travels
Knowlton Festival Diary
The Knowlton Festival, which started life as Festival Bel Canto in the summer of 2008, opened its 2009 summer season with an all Brahms program. Maestro Kent Nagano did his best, in a well-attended pre-concert talk, to make the case that one could legitimately see the music of Brahms [...]

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