What do you think of this piece?” A student asked, holding out a smartphone. The screen displayed a Brahms Piano Concerto condensed into just 41 seconds. Faced with a short-form clip stitched together ...

I posed a deceptively simple question to our writers and editors, as well as some artists we admire: What are the five minutes or so — longer than a moment, shorter than a symphony — that you’d play ...

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had ...