Email Author Mary Beth Crain

2010 Stories by Mary Beth Crain

• LEFT-HANDED COMPLIMENT

  published February 18, 2010

  Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was composed in 1930 for the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in combat... More >>

• MAY BE KHARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH

  published February 18, 2010

  Because Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms is billed as "A Theatrical Incident with Curious Music, Unfamiliar Singing and Improbable... More >>

• YO YAMAHA

  published February 5, 2010

  Elton John. Rufus Wainwright. Norah Jones. Michael Bublé. Barry Manilow. Chick Corea. Michael Tilson Thomas. Abbey Simon. Alicia Keys. They... More >>

• WHAT DO YOU CALL A FRENCH TROJAN?

  published February 5, 2010

  Classical WHAT DO YOU CALL A FRENCH TROJAN? French musician Henry Gronnier is one of those rare performers who claims virtuosity on two... More >>

• BY GEORGE, THAT KING WAS NUTS

  published January 28, 2010

  Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (pictured) is known for his brashly original works, one of the most audacious being Eight Songs for a Mad King , a... More >>

• 25 IS THE NEW 7

  published January 28, 2010

  "It's unusual to hear music by someone who already has his own voice at age 25 and who also has the compositional skill to express that voice,"... More >>

• WHO'S YOUR PIPER?

  published January 21, 2010

  What makes something great? When it comes to music, well, that's a complex question. I'll leave that to Robert Kapilow, who has built a career on... More >>

• TO HELLER AND BACK

  published January 21, 2010

  Almost two decades before Joseph Heller wrote Catch-22, his brilliantly surreal novel about WWII, a man with, oddly enough, the same... More >>

• THIS CHAMBER MAN

  published January 14, 2010

  Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) has been called the foremost French composer of his generation — a daring assertion given that among his... More >>