Hartford Courant

Listening to Beethoven, while walking the dog and dodging cars

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a French pianist, was staring up at the beautiful blue sky Tuesday morning and playing the solemn strains of a Beethoven sonata. Staring up out of my phone, that is. I had put ...
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These are the music genres that dogs love listening to most

I truly never knew that dogs listening to music was a thing until I started dog-sitting in L.A. As an owner left me with her poodle, Jimmy, she asked me to play Beethoven for him, especially if he ...
The Boston Globe

Beethoven as inspiration; dogs as art; babies as burdens

Like a well-crafted piece of music, Irene Taylor Brodsky’s “Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” achieves structural elegance, personal intimacy, and universal significance. In this ...
The New York Times

Listening to Beethoven, While Walking the Dog and Dodging Cars

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook A critic tries to review a streamed concert under the decidedly nonideal conditions of 2020. By Zachary Woolfe Pierre-Laurent Aimard ...