Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Igor Levit plays piano for an audience that includes critic Alex Ross, in the black mask, and Frido Mann, Thomas Mann's grandson, ...

Music and magic have always been bedfellows -- strange bedfellows, but bedfellows all the same. Liszt and Paganini, great virtuosi of the 19th century, were sometimes seen as sorcerers. The mysterious ...