Christmas Eve 1874. The young composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky rushes over to the Moscow Conservatory to play his first masterpiece in front of his mentor, Nikolai Rubinstein. Tchaikovsky plays the ...
“BELOVED FRIEND”—Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek—Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how ...
It’s another one-man show composed of two men. And “composed” is the operative word here. It’s Hershey Felder with another in his series of performances featuring iconic composers, conductors, and ...