We couldn’t let the season go by without having some kind of summer-related theme. The Classics a Day team chose to catch some rays this August. And to find out how many classical composers did so with their music. Of course, any summer-related topic is fair game, too. Here are my posts for the second […]

Elana Brody and Madelyn Ilana will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse Friday night, August 19, for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. These two solo artists are kicking off their first ever tour together right here at Offbeat Roadhouse. This is a free event, open to all. Masks are strongly encouraged for all attendees.  You […]

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was much more than a film composer. The Austrian-born composer premiered his first cantata in 1906, at the age of nine, and was praised at an early age by the likes of Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Puccini. By the 1930s, Korngold’s reputation earned him an invitation to Hollywood to adapt Mendelssohn’s music […]

Zygmunt Stojowski may not be a familiar name today, but he was a major figure in 20th Century music. In 1905, he became piano department chair for the Institute of Musical Art (later Julliard). His teaching over the next four decades would influence hundreds of pianists. Stojowski was also well-respected as a composer, although here […]

This is more than an anniversary reissue. Cedille updates the release by including a new recording. When Rachel Barton Pine recorded these works in 1997, she was an explorer. The works — and even the names — of Black composers were virtually unknown. When it was released, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was the biggest name in the […]

TwoSetViolin is one of the most popular classical music channels on YouTube.  Violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen have been making classical music entertaining since 2013. Their latest effort is a new single by a K-Pop-inspired supergroup. Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Mozart team up to form B2TSM. And their first single just dropped. And […]