Helping Musical Athletes Avoid Injury

Edna Golandsky working with Scott Cohen on the Taubman Approach at the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University. Photo by Laura Pedrick. Training Musical Athletes How to Stay Healthy July 19, 2012  |  The New York Times PRINCETON, N.J. — Like a coach teaching a gymnast how to land gracefully, the ...

Aliens Are Attacking. Cue the Strings. December 26, 2008  |  The New York Times In the video game BioShock turbulent Rachmaninoff-like music plays while an evil composer named Cohen shouts, “Presto, presto” before incinerating a hapless pianist and his instrument. In Battlefield: Bad Company gamers hear a string quintet playing ...

Showman of the organ: the boundary-pushing Cameron Carpenter. In Concert: Talent, Style and Sequins November 11, 2009 | The New York Times BEFORE an October recital at the First Presbyterian Church in Germantown, a run-down Philadelphia neighborhood, the organist Cameron Carpenter wandered through the audience, shaking hands and signing programs. ...

Concerto for Piano and YouTube Valentina Lisitsa Jump-Starts Her Career Online October 11, 2013  |  The New York Times Ms. Lisitsa, 43, resurrected a completely stalled career through YouTube. Since posting her first video in 2007, she has attracted more than 62 million views and some 105,000 subscribers to her ...

Tenacity and a bravura technique: the violinist Rachel Barton Pine at a recent master class at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. Photo by Piotr Redlinski. After Adversity, a Passion Unchecked Years After a Calamity, Rachel Barton Pine Prospers June 21, 2013  |  The New York Times Asked by a student ...