Odds are that you’ve heard Vittorio Monti’s “Csárdás,” even if you don’t think you have. The tune was given a synthpop makeover as the melody for Lady Gaga’s homage to Ace of Bass/ABBA-like Europop ...
Vittorio Monti’s ‘Czárdás’ has one of the most iconic openings in classical music – but you’ve probably only heard it played on a violin. Have a listen to how it sounds on a saxophone… The opening to ...
A teen cellist plays an electrifying arrangement of Monti's Czardas and speaks about organizing his own concert series to benefit a special Boston-area music program. We also meet a trio of close ...
Vittorio Monti was born on this day 150 years ago. Vittorio who, I hear you ask. You may never have heard of him, but it's a racing certainty that you've heard the one and only piece of music that ...
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At just 13 years old, Lincoln Haggart-Ives is about to do something many musicians have only dreamed of. The teen violinist, from Vaughan, Ont., is headed to New York to play at Carnegie Hall. "I was ...
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