Robert Bruce

By: Robert Bruce On September 12, 1840, just a day before her twenty-first birthday, pianist Clara Wieck was married to her longtime beau, the thirty-year old composer, Robert Schumann. The two had met in Leipzig when Robert began studying piano with Clara’s father, Friederick Wieck, a well-known professional pianist and teacher. Over the course of…

By: Robert Bruce I love zoos. I have traveled to other cities in the United States just to visit top-rated zoos in the country. And whenever I am observing the fauna on display – be it big cats, feathered friends, African ungulates, cold-blooded reptiles, or even six-legged crawly critters – I invariably recall music describing…