One of Beethoven’s most famous piano sonatas features in Billy Joel’s 80s hit, ‘This Night’. It’s no revelation that Billy Joel is a pop genius on the piano – but it turns out he’s equally in-the-know ...

Frank Glazer, a pianist of international renown whose professional career began during the 1930s, continues his 2009-10 survey of the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in concert at 7:30 ...

Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Piano Sonata Moonlight; Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes; Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Pathétique 2nd Movement; Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake; Prokofiev – ...

Much of this success was due to a disregard of composition conventions and rules, pushing the performers and their instruments to their limits. Today there are many artists who have recorded and ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

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