Musicon / Musical education / Learn about Classical Music with Creative Kids
Creative Kids Central is an interactive web site with the aim to let kids learn about classical music. It includes information on musical genres and games that will help you build you own opera!, know about symphonic music, take a glance at the world of Brahms and Chamber Music – all very ::More
Musicon / Gluck / Musical education / Gluck and Vestris
The other operatic excerpts common to concerts of both classes are either between-acts music, fantasias on operatic airs, or, in the case of Wagner’s contributions, portions of his dramas which are so predominantly instrumental that it has been found feasible to incorporate the vocal part ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Ballet music
The Suite has come back into favor as an orchestral piece, but the term no longer has the fixed significance which once it had. It is now applied to almost any group of short pieces, pleasantly contrasted in rhythm, tempo, and mood, each complete in itself yet disclosing an aesthetic relationship ::More
Musicon / Musical education / Prokofiev / Prokofiev, The diaries of a life
Like Stravinsky (his senior by ten years) and Shostakovich (his junior by fifteen), Prokofiev was a product of the Saint Petersburg (later Petrograd/Leningrad) Conservatoire and the city’s rich cultural life. This visit and the arduous journey across war-torn Europe are described in riveting ::More
Musicon / Tchaikovsky / Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was first performed in March 29, 1879, in Moscow. The libretto was written by the composer himself and K.S. Shilovsky. Here is a summary of the plot (place: St. Petersburg, Russia; time: early nineteenth century): ACT I, Scene 1. With her devoted servant ::More
