Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...

But the theme, 20 short variations and coda bulge with so much rhythmic and coloristic appeal that it's hard to imagine the music seemed so forbidding at its premiere. Ax gave Copland's explosion of ...

A duo combination of saxophone and drums doesn’t appear to hold much promise for musical variation. But when the players are the versatile English saxophonist-woodwind artist John Surman and drummer ...

Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed—it was news to him that his little girl could play ...