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<strong>The long read</strong>: One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to try to understand this strange affliction

From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I am a wind player, middle-aged, with a job in an orchestra. I think I have focal dystonia, which hasn’t yet been diagnosed, despite repeated trips to various doctors. I have been trying to hide my inconsistencies from my section and orchestra for several years. I want to keep

The Tel Hai International Piano Master Classes return to Sde Boker


American-born and Paris-based since he was 13, he performed on both sides of the Atlantic, winning acclaim specializing in Germanic repertory.

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“Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.” Artur Schnabel was one the most influential pianists of the early 20th century. He’s best remembered as “the man who invented Beethoven.” When he played the complete Beethoven sonatas in a series of pioneering programs in Berlin in 1927, (the composer’s centenary year) it was an historic event that changed the perception of Beethoven’s works. Harold C. Schonberg, the long-time New Yor...