NONFICTION: A Natural History of the Piano, by Stuart Isacoff (Alfred A. Knopf) Before a 1958 concert, pianist Jerry Lee Lewis argued with guitarist Chuck Berry over who would close the show. When ...
Before a 1958 concert, pianist Jerry Lee Lewis argued with guitarist Chuck Berry over who would close the show. When Berry insisted that his contract gave him star billing, Lewis backed down. But he ...
Rather than following a linear timeline, this natural history winds in and out of centuries and genres, introducing a stream of personalities, facts and ideas. Knopf, 361 pp., $30. Appearing like ...
This entertaining new book about the origins and the importance of the piano starts off not with the instrument’s inventor (Bartolomeo Cristofori) or its most famous early advocate (Wolfgang Amadeus ...
"I love a piano!" was the hit song of Irving Berlin's 1915 Broadway show, "Stop! Look! Listen!" It's with a similar exclamatory devotion that pianist and writer Stuart Isacoff has given us "A Natural ...
Writing about music is notoriously difficult. Because it's abstract, most authors on the subject either rely on technicalities or yield to ambiguity. Stuart Isacoff does neither. With the enjoyable "A ...
This post originally appeared in Caixin. On Jan. 24, 1601, the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing bearing a cache of gifts that he had spent years assembling, and even longer ...
Even today's musicians know that jazz has a rapidly changing, living, breathing history. In a new video, young gun Kris Bowers takes a YouTube... Ever since "Evolution of Dance," YouTube and videos ...
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