Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...
An unknown waltz by Chopin has been found. By Javier C. Hernández I’m a reporter covering classical music, opera and dance. As The Times’s classical music reporter, I don’t often get “news” from ...
Musicians might draw on memories of the past as they improvise something new. Amy Beach says she remembered a time hearing waltzes in Vienna as she created her Five Improvisations for piano. Step into ...