What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line–the left hand? There might be a few notations...

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that...

You’ll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven’s or Bach’s music...

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with...

Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never...

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

It [Bach’s cello suites] is like a great diamond,” said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, “with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying...