Tag: musical instruments
The Trio Orelon wins the piano trio category at the ARD music competition – Munich
Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio in E flat major D 929 is a lonely peak when it comes to violin, viola and piano. So it’s no wonder that in the final…
Munich: street music – an exhibition – Munich
Busking is an ephemeral art with centuries of history. A stroll through Munich city center and a visit to the Bavarian National Museum, where a current exhibition illuminates the historical…
The Munich band “Jisr” recorded their new album in India – Munich
The Munich band “Jisr” recorded an album in Bangalore on a long journey that also took them to India. Roman Bunka, who traveled through the country with “Embryo” a good…
Stradivarius expert Dmitry Gindin: “I traded violins when I was 18” – Economy
Dmitry Gindin is an expert on Stradivari violins, sometimes even hunting them down. Why all violins look the same to a layman, how he discovers valuable instruments, and why they…
Saxophonist Sam Gendel – culture
When saxophonist Sam Gendel reduces R&B hits by Ginuwine, Beyoncé or Erykah Badu to the essentials, something emerges that has never been heard before. From Franziska Durmeier Actually, it only…
Cellist competition “Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann” in Berlin – Culture
Of Harold Eggebrecht Wide awake giving impulses, precisely articulating, with springy phrasing, intonation secure and flexible in the bowing, wonderfully variable in the tone, always in exciting contact with the…
Drummer Terri Lyne is revolutionizing jazz culture
Of Andrian Kreye One can of course wonder what the publication of a collection of sheet music in Boston has to do with feminism, AI and the so-called “data bias”.…
Saxophonist Marius Neset and the new standards in jazz: Ninja Warrior – culture
Of Andrian Kreye If you recently attended the performance of the Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset and his band in Munich’s “Unterfahrt”, you already got the feeling from the first piece…
The furious new album by jazz guitarist Julian Lage – Kultur
There is no other instrument in the 20th century that was charged with so much symbolic ballast, sound gimmicks and machismo as the guitar. If you brush away all that…
Music teachers want to abolish the requirement to learn Latin at musical high schools – Bavaria
Many Latin students were already sweating over the first sentence of Homer’s “Odyssey”, the epic about the adventures of Odysseus: “Name me, Muse, the man who experienced many things and…