A. Kori Hill Repetition is a funny thing–it can be boring or exciting. It can make you feel like you’re going nowhere or rediscovering something familiar. You can feel all […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
A. Kori Hill Tai Murray was born in Chicago. She is one of six kids, and as a kid, she became fascinated with the violin. She couldn’t get enough of […]
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A. Kori Hill Did you know that a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ella Sheppard (1851-1914), used to live in Cincinnati? She moved there around 1860, several years after […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
A. Kori Hill Meet Sheku Kanneh-Mason. A cellist from Great Britain, he travels to different countries every year, playing solo recitals or concerts with orchestras. On April 26-27, Sheku will […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
A. Kori Hill If you play a woodwind or brass instrument, chances are you’ve played in a wind quintet. And you’ve likely come across the work of Imani Winds. They’ll […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
Trinity Le, CFK Intern Many of us are familiar with Dvorak’s “New World Symphonyâ€� No. 9 with its sweeping melodies inspired by the rolling, vast landscape of America. He wrote […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
Even if you don’t know it, you’ve probably heard it. I’m talking about “Hallelujahâ€� from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio, Messiah. Celebrating the triumph of the Christian savior, Jesus Christ, over […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
A. Kori Hill Music Hall in Cincinnati 1879, Friends of Music Hall It’s 1893. You’re sitting in Music Hall. If you’re white, you’re sitting on the orchestra level, maybe in […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franck’s Violin
A. Kori Hill Maud Powell (1867–1920) learned violin fast. Like, prodigy fast! She started playing at seven in her hometown of Peru, Illinois. By thirteen, she was in Leipzig, Germany, […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
A. Kori Hill Over a hundred years ago, there lived a guy named Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). He was frustrated because Classical music had gotten so big, long, complex, and chromatic […]
She couldn’t get enough of A Wedding Gift for the Violin King: César Franckâ€
