Entertainment & Arts
The famed Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini died Saturday. Listen to his music, and you’ll still hear life in every note.
March 27, 2024
New releases show how the extraordinary Maurizio Pollini builds his music.
May 5, 2002
In a world in flux, some things never change.
April 2, 1993
A role model to many pianists of the younger generation, Maurizio Pollini remains a controversial keyboard artist to longtime musical observers.
April 3, 1992
$1.4-Million Calder Mobile Stolen: An Alexander Calder mobile with a $1.4-million price tag has been stolen from a New York gallery, authorities said Tuesday.
Jan. 24, 1990
After a spate of recent disappointments in this midwinter piano season, our fortunes seem to have turned around.
March 15, 1991
Not too many years ago, it became stylish to treat the piano literally as a percussion instrument.
Sept. 7, 1986
The notion that great music makes its great impression under virtually any professional interpretive circumstances must have been propounded before the arrival of Debussy’s piano works.
June 12, 1994
Maurizio Pollini, on the evidence of his just-released set of the five canonic Beethoven Piano Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon 439 770, three CDs), has become a safe, secure pianist, a prematurely old master.
April 16, 1995
Historians say the toppling of Hussein’s statue follows a centuries-old tradition.
April 10, 2003