Rudolf Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz were close contemporaries. By the time the Austrian Serkin (born in 1903) and the Russian Horowitz (a year younger) immigrated to America in the late 1930s, they ...

July 24 at 8:30: Boston’s musical duchy turns to a reliable old hand, Herbert Blomstedt, to conduct the B.S.O. in an all-Brahms program—the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor (with the matchless Peter ...

A crowd packed Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall one night last winter as it always did when Arturo Toscanini was leading the Philharmonic. A skinny young man in ill-fitting clothes and thick glasses came on ...

In Manhattan last week arrived bristly haired, professional Violinist Adolf Busch bringing to the U. S. for the first time his famed Busch Quartet and his young protege Pianist Rudolf Serkin. Day ...

The members of the Dover Quartet, which is string quartet-in-residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, are all alumni of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, where the ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra opens its season with the return of a near native — pianist Peter Serkin, who grew up in Guilford. Yes, one of those Serkins. “This is kind of like classical-music ...