At the other extreme, homosexuality is placed at the very centre of Tchaikovsky's life and work, as if it influenced his every step and profoundly marked all his music, distinguishing it radically ...
This work, Kamarinskaya (1842), was later hailed by Tchaikovsky as the "acorn" from which the whole of Russian music grew. Today we realize how biased this statement was. True, Tchaikovsky's ...
Exploring the influence of classical composer Tchaikovsky on 'Running Gun Blues', a stunning anti-war protest anthem written by David Bowie back in 1970.
Only recently invented, the celesta was in its infancy when Tchaikovsky began to imagine how he might write for it. Since then, its sound has spread throughout classical music and into pop ...