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In this recording of the eight Impromptus, some of Schubert’s most profound music, Lu cements his place as a serious talent Eric Lu was a worthy if controversial winner of the Chopin international ...

COMMENTARY: As the old year gives way to the new, it is timely to recall two important anniversaries of the venerable Marian prayer. Upper left: Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach is shown ...

Franz Schubert is largely credited with inventing the classical song cycle, and his 1828 “Winterreise” — or “Winter Journey” — the forlorn reflections of a young man who has lost his love to another, ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban quipped during a bilateral meeting at the White House that he wants to hire press secretary Karoline Leavitt after she delivered an impromptu takedown of the ...

AIKEN — The Aiken Symphony will showcase the great talents of eight of its musicians from the strings, winds and brass sections in an intimate matinee setting with Schubert’s Octet. The performance ...

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical ...

She described her 66-year-old father, Dan Benway — who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November 2023 — as a "fighter" A team of doctors and nurses at an Illinois hospital rallied together to ...

Staff at a Chicago-area hospital helped plan an impromptu garden wedding so that one of their patients, a father with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, could escort his daughter down the aisle "It means so ...