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A new recording of Mexican piano concertos and solo piano works, Conciertos Románticos, exemplifies the rich blend of late-romantic European classical and traditional Mexican musical idioms from before the Mexican Revolution.

How does a child navigate the hardships and heartaches of a world run by adults? Columbus composer Rocco Di Pietro grapples with this and other questions about the dark side of childhood in his piano work The Children’s Journey. Acclaimed pianist and contemporary music specialist Kathleen Supové will perform the world premiere of The Children’s Journey in Columbus on Nov. 15.

“For me, making music felt inadequate.”That’s what noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein said about the days she spent in lockdown last spring, as the…

He composed music for a single instrument–the piano–at a time when other composers were writing works for monster concerts. His personal life was quiet,…

“It was dark, unsettling. And it, in a way, kind of reflected my own family’s dark history.”That’s how the music of Austrian-born Holocaust survivor Karol…

There was a time when a woman composer was a relatively rare phenomenon. There was also a time when music critics drew a clear line between "masculine"…

“I think that he’s kind of like the grandfather of it all.”That’s what pianist Simone Dinnerstein says about Bach, a composer for whose music she has a…

As the saying goes, laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone.And — hello? — who wants to cry alone?That’s why The American Sound this…

A couple of years ago, The New Yorker published a cartoon by Joe Dator that truly catches the spirit of our times.In the single panel, a pregnant woman…

Behind every great piano and every great pianist is a technician on whom everything depends. For most of the last half century in Columbus, that piano…