It’s hard to believe it’s almost time for a new spring session, but my next two 8-week classes are right around the corner: The Symphony Since Beethoven Beethoven’s legacy proved an inspiration and obstacle to the next generation of...

Just a reminder that my semi-regular one-day seminar on introductory music reading is on for this Saturday in downtown Chicago. We begin at 10am and end at 4pm, with a one-hour lunch break. The location is the University of Chicago’s Gleacher...

January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops. Representing the many victims, especially the doomed artists of Theresienstadt, we’re listening to the Seventh Piano Sonata of Viktor...

Coming up soon, in downtown Chicago at the Gleacher Center just north of the Chicago River, off the Magnificent Mile… Introduction to Music Literacy: One-day Seminar 3/13/2010 Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM This seminar is designed to equip the...

I like boxes. You know, compendiums of classical music consisting of 30 or more cds, at prices averaging under $2/disc.  I don’t listen to ‘em, necessarily, but I pile them on the piano and look at them from time to time. There are amazing deals...