The chandeliered, high-windowed concert hall of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky State Conservatory echoed last week to the rubbery beat of Blue Moon and the striding chords of Embraceable You. Then a reedy ...

The Cliburn has announced a change to the jury for the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, taking place May 21–June 7, 2025, at Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and Bass ...

Apr. 29—The Austin Symphony Orchestra will wrap up its current season when it presents a Van Cliburn finalist and Minneapolis native, Kenny Broberg, as the final soloist of the season on Sunday ...

Poland’s Piotr Alexewicz is among thirty up-and-coming pianists selected to participate in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. The participants were chosen from ...

They often fall prey to a persistent myth: that Crimea had been eternally Russian until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arbitrarily “gifted” the peninsula to Ukraine in 1954. Such proposals ...

Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were both guests in its heyday, and a galaxy of Hollywood legends – from Elizabeth Taylor to Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock – crossed the ...

So did the pianist Van Cliburn, who got wake-up calls from Naomi Graffman, who worked for Cliburn’s manager at Columbia Artists Management in those days. She and her husband, the pianist Gary ...

Yang was a Grammy nominee in 2017 and a silver medalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, at age 19. She will perform Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini," Op.

Russia’s taking of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 was possibly understandable, given the fact that Crimea was part of Russia until Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine.

When Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first man to step foot in space he was declared a national hero by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev who barred him from going into space again because ...

Universal Music Group’s content outfit Mercury Studios has secured the rights to Crescendo, a documentary following contenders at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Directed by ...