For sheer drama and poignancy, real life stories sometimes outshine fiction. Consider the case of piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher. In 1966, at the height of a phenomenal international career, a medical condition called focal dystonia cost him the use of...
Doug Johnson: Welcome to American Mosaic in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. The winter holiday can be beautiful and bright. Christmas lights, boxes wrapped in pretty paper and excited children are everywhere. But it can be a difficult a...
Many consider him the greatest concert violinist in the world. The music of Itzhak Perlman is our program today on the VOA Special English program THIS IS AMERICA. Im Steve Ember. (MUSIC: Giovanni Viotti Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor)Itzhak Perlm...
RICHARD RAEL: I'm Richard Rael. RAY FREEMAN: And I'm Ray Freeman with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today, we finish our report about the gr...
Aspiring young musicians explore their talents outside of school Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 14 May 2010 The Student Symphonic Orchestra of Fairfax, which students formed on their own outside of school, just celebrated its first anniversary. Class...
26 February 2008 Members of the New York Philharmonic are in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, for the first performance by a U.S. symphony orchestra in the communist state. The event has been a magnet for global media attention, and many people see...
Oksana Dragan The United States boasts at least several dozen balalaika orchestras - ensembles that feature the triangular, three-stringed lute-like Russian folk instrument. Today on new American Voic...