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Father’s Day, Lost Auctions, and the Transcendent Grace of Jade Goddess of Mercy

Father’s Day, Lost Auctions, and the Transcende...

Father’s Day didn’t quite go according to plan. A digital glitch on an auction site cost me a Japanese watercolor on silk I’d hoped to win for myself. Seeking a...

Father’s Day, Lost Auctions, and the Transcende...

Father’s Day didn’t quite go according to plan. A digital glitch on an auction site cost me a Japanese watercolor on silk I’d hoped to win for myself. Seeking a...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: The Virtuoso Who Rebuilt a Nation

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: The Virtuoso Who Rebuilt...

Few figures in modern history have bridged the worlds of fine art and high-stakes geopolitics as triumphantly as Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941). Celebrated worldwide as a rock-star-level piano virtuoso, he...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: The Virtuoso Who Rebuilt...

Few figures in modern history have bridged the worlds of fine art and high-stakes geopolitics as triumphantly as Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941). Celebrated worldwide as a rock-star-level piano virtuoso, he...

Fiery Bows and Flamenco Beats: Discovering Sarasate’s Spanish Dances

Fiery Bows and Flamenco Beats: Discovering Sara...

Few classical musicians could make a violin sound as completely effortless as Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908). Born in Pamplona, the child prodigy grew into a global sensation whose style wasn't...

Fiery Bows and Flamenco Beats: Discovering Sara...

Few classical musicians could make a violin sound as completely effortless as Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908). Born in Pamplona, the child prodigy grew into a global sensation whose style wasn't...

The Equal Partnership: Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord

The Equal Partnership: Bach’s Six Sonatas for V...

In the chamber repertoire of the early eighteenth century, listeners accustomed to a single voice supported by a discreet accompaniment would have found Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and...

The Equal Partnership: Bach’s Six Sonatas for V...

In the chamber repertoire of the early eighteenth century, listeners accustomed to a single voice supported by a discreet accompaniment would have found Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Sonatas for Violin and...

The Quiet Majesty of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major

The Quiet Majesty of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 i...

Among Bach’s six suites for solo cello, the Fourth Suite in E-flat major (BWV 1010) occupies a singular space. It lacks the effortless lyricism of the First or the dramatic...

The Quiet Majesty of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 i...

Among Bach’s six suites for solo cello, the Fourth Suite in E-flat major (BWV 1010) occupies a singular space. It lacks the effortless lyricism of the First or the dramatic...

The Genius of Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1: Masterpiece of Economy and Elegance

The Genius of Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. ...

Few concertos in the string repertoire make as immediate an entry as Camille Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33. Composed in 1872, the work remains an...

The Genius of Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. ...

Few concertos in the string repertoire make as immediate an entry as Camille Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33. Composed in 1872, the work remains an...