Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
I love listening to classical music.
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
I love anything by Tchaikovsky. He was the real pop star of his day.
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
Brahms is one of my all-time favorite composers.
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
