Articles Written By: Alice Wang

My piano teacher, a Japanese pianist, always told me that classical music is best when played “with colors.” For years, I have tried to incorporate that into my own performances. A lot of Bach’s works, although ingenious in composition, have deemed by many as unexciting or boring. It is true that in front of an…

One thing I noticed from reading plays written before the last 300 years is that they often do not reflect modern life. Characters would speak in convoluted, cryptic ways and be overly determined in what I consider trivial matters. When going about making decisions, they’re usually too indecisive, such as in Oedipus Rex, or too…