NEW YORK, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Comprising ninety discs, Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box is a salute to Yo-Yo Ma's monumental musical achievements and to his 30-year legacy with Sony Masterworks.

Joseph Bloch, who taught and inspired scores of pianists at New York's famed Julliard School, has died in Larchmont, N.Y., at the age of 91, his family says. During Bloch's five decade-long career at Julliard, he taught such notable pianists as Misha Dichter, Jeffrey Siegel, Emanuel Ax and Jeffrey Swann, The New York Times noted Sunday. Many, many other pianists, even though he didn't teach them privately, felt that he had an immeasurable impact on their musical knowledge and their musical scope, Yoheved Kaplinsky, the current piano department chairwoman at Julliard, said of Bloch. Bloch, who died March 4 of a heart attack, first joined the performing arts conservatory in New York in 1948.

By Mark Kanny There was no disappointment in hearing Emanuel Ax play a piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven earlier this month at Heinz Hall.