How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw.

Swift keeps the drama low‑key and the tempo measured, exactly what you want when you’re trying to stay in the zone. Soft piano and steady phrasing make it easy to tune into your problem sets while the ...

Before I embark on my marathon reporting from the trenches during Stage 1 at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, I’m laying down one ground rule: no predictions. Instead, I’ll ...

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1. The model exceeds the predecessor's performance on complex tasks. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex ...

In May, AI firm Anthropic introduced its Claude 4 family of models with a focus on improvements to coding, reasoning, and following instructions. Three months later, Anthropic is back with Claude Opus ...

The successor to the wildly popular OP-1, Teenage Engineering's OP-1 Field is one of the most divisive products in music technology. Depending on who you ask, this cutesy synth/sampler is either a ...

In a solo recital for the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Performers Series, Kissin shows his deep affinity for two radically different composers. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin, seen here at Italy’s ...

As time passes, memories remain—painting vivid, nostalgic emotions each time we look back. A canvas of reminiscence, of longing and reflection. Reminiscence – Hồi Tưởng is a night of solo and duet ...

Since “Nobu Fever” entered the piano world’s vocabulary after Noboyuki Tsujii’s gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn competition (shared with Haochen Zhang), the elephant in the room has been when or if ...

Hearing all 21 of Chopin’s Nocturnes in sequence might seem like too much of a good thing: two hours or so of slow right-hand melodies over broken-chord accompaniment. But in the hands of pianist ...

The Opus wedges have a redesigned shape that was driven by feedback from tour pros and feature a new face treatment that enhances friction State Department begins widespread layoffs, cutting 1,353 ...

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