Cremona Musica International Exhibitions 2016 (Cremona Exhibition Center – Friday, September 30th – Sunday, October 2nd) registered a visitors attendance much higher than expected, thus showing a great improvement both at quantitative (+10% in comparison to 2015 with over 16,800 visitors) and at qualitative level (with the participation of several professional musicians). As a result, […]
More than 7 hours of concerts and meetings on the popular US music genre The 4th edition of the Bluegrass Meeting will take place within the Acoustic Guitar Village in Cremona. Bands and solo artists for a total of over 40 musicians will further enrich Cremona Musica International Exhibitions Cremona, May 19th 2016 – A […]
Taiwan’s GDP increases constantly (+1.6% over last year) and its import has a value of about 230 billion dollars: the opportunities for Italian companies are many. Christie Huang, Director of TAITRA: “We have chosen CremonaFiere because it is a centre of excellence on the international trade-fair exhibition scene”. Cremona, April 8th, 2016 – CremonaFiere expands […]
With the improvement of Internet, today many universities have programs of distance learning, or e-learning. This allows students living very far from the universities to get lessons and interact with students and teachers thousands of miles far away. But is music performance compatible with distance learning? In recent years many music schools and conservatories launched […]
A new piano tuning software has been developed and launched by the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, Germany. It is called Entropy Piano Tuner (EPT) and is based on the calculation of the entropia between the frequency of each note of the piano. The software runs on any laptop (Windows, iOS or Linux) and works in […]
Clive Brown, professor of musicology at the University of Leeds, wrote a provocative article about the lack of improvisation in modern performances of classical music: “Classical performance has lost much of the improvisatory element that was an essential part of its original character. This has resulted in a stiffly formal distortion of what the greatest […]
The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument in which the strings are rubbed by a rosined wheel instead of a bow. The wheel is turned by the player’s right hand, while the left hand plays the tune on the keys in the key-box. Two of the strings (usually), called the chanters or melody strings, run though […]
The Guardian has recently republished a review of a concert given by Chopin at the Manchester Concert Hall on August 28, 1848. The critic, originally published on the Guardian of August 30, 1848, describes Chopin’s figure as “very spare in frame, and there is an almost painful air of feebleness in his appearance and gait. […]
Guitars, string and wind instruments, pianos, ensemble: these are the categories of the competition in which young musicians aged between 11 and 26 years old will play Cremona Musica is proving to be committed to the spreading of musical culture and pays a great attention to the growth of young talents Cremona, 18th March 2016 […]
30 instruments in just one exhibition coordinated by Marco Ballestri, Luca Buffagni and Gianfranco Borghi The exhibition will be one of the great novelties of the Acoustic Guitar Village, an area dedicated to six –stringed instruments within Cremona Musica International Exhibitions (Cremona’s Fair, from the 30th of September to the 2nd of October 2016) Cremona, […]