Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. My wife's roommate from college, Josephine Knight, ...

“I’m a composer,” says William Schuman, “and I’m also an administrator. I can’t imagine a life when I couldn’t do both—or each.” Last week Schuman was doing both. As president of Manhattan’s Lincoln ...

The contest, held by a musicians’ committee “to aid Spanish democracy,” was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised ...

There are no special T-shirts on sale as swag for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Schumann Focus” festival, the way there have been for Gustavo Dudamel’s Beethoven and Mahler symphony cycles at Walt ...

Many musicians of my acquaintance have a special soft spot for Robert Schumann. The music of this arch-Romantic composer of Many musicians of my acquaintance have a special soft spot for Robert ...

Though she remains one of the most influential musicians of the 19th century, Clara Wieck Schumann is relatively unknown as a musician and composer. Historically, her life and work has only been ...

On March 23, 1944, the Italian resistance set off a bomb near a line of police marching in Nazi-occupied Rome. Thirty-three officers were killed, prompting German authorities to order 10 Italians ...

Clara Schumann, one of the busiest concert pianists of the 19th century, was acclaimed throughout Europe for her power, her nuance, her technique, her soul. "She has a musical genius of the highest ...

Listen to host Scott Yoo, cellist Bion Tsang and producer Michael Fine discuss how other composers and musicians changed the works of Schumann. Great Performances is available to stream on pbs.org and ...