The arts like to pride themselves on being "challenging". They "speak truth to power" – meaning not just political power, but the power of received, lazy ways of thinking and feeling. People in the ...

Valentina Lisitsa showed musical talent early, but she wanted to be a professional chess player. Music won out. Lisitsa will join the Spokane Symphony and conductor Eckart Preu this weekend for a pair ...

Stewart Goodyear was to have replace Valentina Lisitsa, only to be cancelled himself. As most have heard, Valentina Lisitsa was "uninvited" from performing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto with the ...

Sometimes a soloist simply dominates a concert. Sometimes -- like last Saturday night at the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra's concert, when Valentina Lisitsa proved that she deserves every ...

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Valentina Lisitsa, who has a huge online following, has criticised western journalists for supposed bias in covering events in Ukraine A pianist has been struck off the concert programme with a ...

‘Done is better than perfect” was the motto of the mid-aughts. Adopters of this Internet maxim won their place atop the search and social heap. Such an approach to success seems antithetical to ...

It's not often that you can put a number to a pianist's greatness, but here's one: on the way to becoming one of the Internet's favorite classical musicians, and if you missed her recital Sunday ...

How do classical artists grab attention these days? Simple — or, actually, not so simple at all. They build their fan bases on YouTube, one page hit at a time. It's a model that's familiar in pop ...

Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most frequently viewed pianists on YouTube, who sold out her debut performance at the Royal Albert Hall after attracting an internet fan base of millions. Life and ...