It was thanks to Hindemith that Gould received his only Grammy Award – and not for his piano playing. He won for the Best Liner Notes of 1973 with an essay accompanying his recording of the three ...

To German Nazis he is merely a “noise maker” and his U. S. patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last ...

Aquinas, Thomas. Philosophy & Theory. Selected and edited by M. C. D'Arcy, S. J. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1939. Arikha, Noga. Passions and Tempers: A History of the ...

Few living composers had ever had so much of their music played in one week. Everyone seemed to burst out playing the knotty, dissonant music of Paul Hindemith. Violinist Robert Brink had just put his ...

Hindemith’s neo-classical music – Bachian in spirit, with a dry 1920s/1930s astringency – is an acquired taste, but this CD has two things in its favour. It is devoted to orchestral music with solo ...

In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews two new releases by pianist/conductor Leon Fleisher, ...

Hindemith's three piano sonatas date from 1936, when the composer was under pressure from the Nazis over his opera Mathis der Maler. Malcolm MacDonald's notes suggest that Hindemith saw the piano as ...

Eighty years is a long time for a major work by a major composer to wait for its premiere. But these things happen -- especially when a cranky commissioner is involved. Hindemith's "Piano Music with ...

fourths, which might sound weird to more conservative listeners, but jazz musicians loved it. And I think I liked both composers because I also loved modern jazz music When I was living in Paris in ...

Five Jewish protégés of the great composer, while he was Yale, have their moment in the spotlight. If, as Shakespeare famously wrote, every man in his time plays many parts, it should come as no ...