She was watching an Italian film with her dad and was ... walks away with a newfound appreciation for the accordion in the classical music realm. “I always feel like the accordion is a ...

Alexander Sevastian is on the front line, armed with his accordion. He says he is one of the few classical music accordion players in North America. Listeners think of the accordion as “party ...

The 26th edition of Al Bustan International Music Festival will dedicate its program to Italian classical music ... Bustan invited bandoneon (a type of accordion) virtuoso Mario Stefano ...

His replacement, an Italian ice-cream vendor ... the leading pioneer of the classical accordion, had convinced the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen to endow the instrument with its ...

A couple of drinks, some good food, lots of talk and laughter, and some accordion music afterward in the living ... he began performing in Chicago taverns in the Italian neighborhoods when his ...

He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music. By Richard Sandomir Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion ...