Igor Levit plays piano for an audience that includes critic Alex Ross, in the black mask, and Frido Mann, Thomas Mann's grandson, wearing the blue mask, in the first performance on Thomas Mann's piano ...

The first Arkalalah queen, crowned in 1928, came out of retirement about a year ago. Since then, the 95-year-old retired school teacher and pianist has produced two CDs of 1930s and 1940s piano ...

Here are two sizeable works which Romania's greatest composer somehow lost sight of – neither surfaced until the 1960s, a decade or so after his death. The 1940 Piano Quintet is in that fluid, ...

Two down, two to go. The City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program is in the process of rejuvenating four signs that date back to the 1940s on the Cunningham Piano Company’s restoration facility’s ...

A unique school in Vancouver teaches blind adults piano restoration and tuning. The Vancouver-based “piano hospital” has been teaching blind adults the art of piano refurbishing and tuning since the ...

Among the disappointments of Colm Toíbín’s new novel, "The Magician," which imagines the life of Thomas Mann, is any real sense of the richly extravagant artistic life of the émigré community in 1940s ...