Under a Rest

In case you have run out of things to be superstitious about this Friday the 13th, we’ve put together a few suggestions for you straight from some of your favorite composers.

This week, we celebrate Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt's first duo performance.

This week, we celebrate Mstislav Rostropovich’s 91st Birthday.

This Week’s episode is sponsored by Sylvester Stallone and Rocky Road Ice Cream.

This week, we’re talking about Ethel Smyth’s Opera Der Wald, the first opera by a woman to be performed at the Met. This historic performance took place on March 12th, 1903.

If my music is too Avant-Garde, you're too old.

Ravel's one and only String Quartet premiered on March 5th. 1904.

February 28th is the 199th anniversary of the first ever public performance of a Schubert song.

In honor of President’s Day, we honor the “president” of piano pedagogy, Carl Czerny, who turns 227 on February 21st.

This week on Under a Rest, Everything’s coming up Milhaud.

We're kicking off the podcast by talking about Giuseppe Verdi's Otello, an opera based on Shakespeare's Othello.