In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries there was one sequence of chords that composers loved more than any other. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Steve Reich has been described as the single most influential composer of the late-twentieth century, bringing fresh ideas and impetus to both popular and classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mason felt that the music, including the work of composers such as Billings, was “rude and crude.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The composer's expert control over such feelings of expectation and arrival are one of the main sources of the listener's enjoyment of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

What, though, were the non-Jewish composers left behind expected to do? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The immigrant Handel, a naturalised British citizen from 1727, demonstrated more successfully than any other composer before the nineteenth century how music could become the collective voice of nationhood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was its integration, against the composer’s wishes, as it happens, of non-musical sound effects into the score. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many of Wolfgang’s childhood compositions, such as the first seven of his concertos for piano and orchestra, are largely arrangements of works by other composers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To understand the musical revolution that occurred in around 1400, at the hands of a composer and astrologer named John Dunstaple, we need to play with some notes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In 1890, for example, if you’d asked most educated people in the West to name a famous living composer, they would very likely have given you that of a Russian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, composers increasingly found that chords had a hierarchy, too: certain chords exert an influence over other chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The two composers, both born in 1813, had pursued parallel but quite separate careers in opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Until Elgar, Vaughan Williams and perhaps Parry in the twentieth century, no composer commanded as much respect, pride or admiration among Britons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And prepare to become the next big film composer. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The more weight composers gave to the junior notes and lesser chords, the more they allowed the harmony to lose its sense of familiarity, reassurance and comfort. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If you launch a new musical form, though, what you need is a composer of such stature and brilliance that there is a decent chance of someone taking your new art form seriously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Without question, the ability to write down rhythms fired the imaginations of composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I want to become a composer, and all composers know how to play the piano. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For example, one class of scales that intrigues some composers is symmetrical scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then some Joplin, who’s good, and then some Aaron Copland, who Mr. Russell said was his favorite composer even though he didn’t write anything for a flutist. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But composers often add some notes or even whole sections of music that are from a different key, to make the music a little more complex and interesting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It is a conversation that continues to be played out between self-styled ‘serious’ composers and ‘crossover’ composers to this day. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We do some pieces from our repertoire and, now that we're alone, some forbidden composers, too. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That Beethoven changed the way society viewed composers should not cloud our judgement of his brilliant predecessor who sought and gave one thing: pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

These were the songs by European classical composers like Giuseppe Verdi and Franz Schubert that she had heard Roland Hayes sing in church, and that she now began to learn. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When she played a selection from Bach, I’d point to the correct composer, then once again touch the color blue on my board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Chord manuals, fingering charts, chord diagrams, and notes written out on a staff are all very useful, especially if the composer wants a very particular sound on a chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Audiences may well have flocked to new, younger Puccinis, had they come along, but composers didn’t want to be new Puccinis any more. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The international prestige of Handel was unmatched among British composers until Lennon and McCartney in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Russian composers like Tchaikovsky mostly treated the brouhaha surrounding Wagner’s music dramas with disdain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But what these Victorian Age composers didn’t realise was that destiny was about to give them a tremendous jolt. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We have already witnessed composers beginning to play around with this sequence as they became aware of musical gravity, but in the dusty world of music terminology it has a name: the Circle of Fifths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the century leading up to Dunstaple’s time, composers layered notes on top of each other but chose only from a very limited number of possible combinations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So even while mean-tone tuning was enjoying great popularity, some composers and musicians were searching for other solutions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some scales are loosely based on the music of other cultures, and are used when the composer wants to evoke the music of another place or time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His father was Constantijn Huygens, a master diplomat of the age, a litterateur, poet, composer, musician, close friend and translator of the English poet John Donne, and the head of an archetypical great family. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much folk, popular, and modern music, gives instructions in English or in the composer's language. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It has changed and evolved as composers experimented with new sounds, ideas, and even new or evolving instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So instead of being influenced by the sound of ancient Greek music, eighteenth-century composers were influenced by the ideals of classical art. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Theoreticians then study the resulting music and discover good ways of explaining it to the audience and to other composers and performers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Alongside this fresh boost of material came a desire to try to reproduce as accurately as possible the sounds that the original composers might have heard - a movement searching for ‘authenticity’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The composer’s name was John Williams, and his bio said he composed the score for nine Star Wars movies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Never before had humanity so badly needed its music to share the burden of anxiety, and composers everywhere answered this plaint. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I want famous artists and composers to come and stay at my house. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second stage was accompanied by an acknowledgement that any young composer hoping to make a splash on the opera world would need to be daring and - if possible - a little shocking. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The inheritors of Mozart’s legacy in the twentieth century - classically-trained, self-styled ‘serious’ composers - struggled desperately with this challenge. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Always classify the interval as it is written; the composer had a reason for writing it that way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For the first hundred years after his death, though, Bach was a forgotten, unperformed composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Not for the first or last time, a composer recycled a good tune that had not yet found its audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When a composer writes a forte into a part, followed by a piano, the intent is for the music to be loud, and then suddenly quiet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Time and again in the rich tradition of fusing musical genres we have seen composers draw on little-known folk styles - as Paul Simon did on Graceland - or trawl through music’s attic in search of inspiration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The happiest months of Haydn’s life, according to the composer himself, were those spent being treated like a celebrity in England, in 1791-2 and again in 1794-5. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The composer was Claudio Monteverdi and the new style of singing gave birth to opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It has changed, certainly, and it is now experienced in all sorts of ways that would have surprised, for instance, Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer who died a few months after that historic transmission. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Joseph Goebbels, the composer of blustery Nazi propaganda, had been issuing nonsense statements for years. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A tempo marking that is a word or phrase gives you the composer's idea of how fast the music should feel. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For other mid-twentieth-century composers, however, it seemed increasingly as if being complicated and uncompromising was more important than producing something beautiful, entertaining or simply enjoyable. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the newly defined role of the bass line altered how composers viewed the shape of harmony for hundreds of years, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In his church recitals he broke with tradition and featured classical songs by European composers along with traditional African American spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One positive function Schoenberg’s twelve-tone formula fulfilled, though, other than provide for interesting analysis and debate, was to give composers in the twentieth century a challenging structure with which to grapple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, 'developing' tunes like this soon became essential for composers of orchestral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Luigi Cherubini was one such composer, born in Florence but able to flourish in Paris by tiptoeing deftly between opposing camps as political power changed hands before, during and after the Revolution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Within Hildegard’s lifetime a group of younger composers working at Notre-Dame in Paris had become known for their radical approach to harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As a whole it is a vast, miraculous musical jigsaw, never since matched by any composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One way that a composer keeps a piece of music interesting is by varying how strongly the end of each phrase sounds like "the end." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The twentieth century put enormous pressure on classical composers to carve out a new role for themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Since beats normally get divided into halves and quarters, this is the easiest way for composers to write beats that are divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But, writes the psychologist Michael Howe in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers, Mozart’s early works are not outstanding. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dvorak’s other notable student, organist and composer Harry Rowe Shelley, may not have heeded the call as conscientiously, certainly not if his orchestral works Souvenir de Baden-Baden and The Crusaders are anything to go by. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What composers could impose instead of incremental change were more abrupt contrasts of loud and soft, like the juxtaposition of light and shade, chiaroscuro, in painting. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Escapist fun was not, by and large, a route chosen by classical composers in the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Few classical composers made headway in film and many viewed it suspiciously or with condescension, as something only good enough for the paying of bills. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But Wagner wasn't the only composer who was guilty of creating unnecessary clutter in the eyes of an iconoclast like Satie. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

More important to Italy’s musical enrichment than the cultural salvage from Constantinople was the importing, at vast expense, of skilled and celebrated Flemish composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dunstaple was a composer with a new and enchanting style that everyone wanted to emulate, and musicians fell over themselves praising the startling new sound of English triads. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She’d pick a selection on a CD, then ask me the composer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Even allowing for the traditional plea of composers to be immune from political events irrelevant to their art, Haydn’s symphonies sound as if they were written in a vacuum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I am not exaggerating: composers of the second half of the nineteenth century really did believe that this was their role. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Which brings us back to our Parisian composer, Perotin, and his great legacy to Western music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Which made me think about a musician Aaron once told me about: a composer who wrote a piece with no notes whatsoever. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Field is one of those composers who has been dealt an inexplicably poor hand by posterity but who had a huge influence on other composers in their own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Over in Italy, the composers who followed Vivaldi were fixated on the lucrative but non-progressive business of Italian opera, both at home and abroad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sheet music, surely also the ill-gotten spoils of the Château des Bourreaux—a lot of popular songs from the last decade and some pieces by French composers, scored for flute and piano. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A couple of the very youngest children dragged the tempo a trifle, but in a way that only the composer’s mother could have found fault with. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

What John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison achieved as composers had an impact way beyond the internal fashions and rejuvenations of pop itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you look in the 1880s, outside Bayreuth, you see composers carrying on as if nothing had happened. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is as if composers felt their job was not to join the revolutionaries, but to keep the aristocracy calm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But it is important to remember that forms are not sets of rules that composers are required to follow. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It never went away in folk music, so whenever composers were trying to sound rustic, earthy or homesick for their native countryside, you could expect them to dip back into the modal well for inspiration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was the barrier - training - that most prevented women composers coming to the fore in the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Schumann was, however, one of a group of composers who between them made the piano the essential nineteenth-century instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some parents chatting with Dad find out that not only is he a Chumley Prep music instructor, but he is also the composer of several show tunes that could become a musical. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

With him, the composer as agent provocateur had arrived. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The two composers did meet once, an encounter brokered by the kindly Antonio Salieri, and we have it word for word since Beethoven, being deaf, had to have the conversation written down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So much so that, not long after notation became generally available, we start seeing the names of composers attached to pieces. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Boghetti had been working with her on expanding her repertoire of art songs, and now he encouraged her to prepare an ambitious program of works by Italian, German, and English composers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Of the generation that followed Beethoven, Chopin was the composer whose influence was slowest to make its impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky, though, was the first Russian composer to achieve meaningful fame outside Russia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For all the scepticism of film music among ‘serious’ composers, cinema was a lifesaver for classical music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ world of eighteenth-century European nobility, the in-house composer was definitely Downstairs, even one with an international reputation as prestigious as Haydn’s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Musical surrealism and attempts at finding what the future of sound might be ran, somewhat surprisingly, alongside another avenue being explored by classical composers in the 1920s: rummaging around in music’s attic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

J. S. Bach was probably the cleverest composer who ever lived, but he gave his performers almost no detailed instructions as to how they might play his sublime music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The great statesmen, the great writers, the great composers, as taught in schools, were all white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

By the nineteenth century, though, a dotted rhythm was only played if the composer had specified it with a dot in the notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Despite all this, his immediate effect on other composers was patchy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What’s more, even very skilled composers decided there were really far too many chords available and that they needed far fewer for their purposes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Luther, as well as being a theologian, scholar, writer and preacher, was a composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer’s coldness and none of his poetry. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t expect to hear rock and roll guitar in Shostakovich or a bluesy sax solo in Bartok, even though these composers would have heard both, often, during their working lives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So a composer may very well prefer to write an E sharp, because that makes the note's place in the harmonies of a piece more clear to the performer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the agendas of Stalin and his composers were abruptly realigned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When she sang for composer Jean Sibelius at his home in Finland, he threw his arms around her, said “My ceiling is much too low for your voice,” and called for champagne. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Whether a piece of music is a march, a sonata, or a theme and variations, the composer is always free to experiment with the overall architecture of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Clara Wieck Schumann was the wife and muse of Robert Schumann, and a talented composer and pianist in her own right. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His published discourses on the physics of music and on the proper use of dissonance - deliberately clashing discords of various kinds - influenced many, if not all, Italian composers of the seventeenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All the composers of the next hundred years were affected by this profound change of purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The new musical style was already well under way by the time Mozart was a young composer, and he grew up in a Europe experiencing a sea change in cultural attitudes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was a genius other composers slavishly followed for well over half a century, yet to most modern listeners he is just a name, alongside his colleague Brahms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Opera composers from all over Europe were drawn to its glitz and glamour, and the prospect of getting rich from musical tragedy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For composers and musicians, it might just as well have been called the Enjoyment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Music theory, too, always comes along after a group of composers and performers have already developed a musical tradition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For the well-to-do Viennese of the late-eighteenth century onwards, however, including composers like Haydn and Mozart, using the terms ‘gypsy’, ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Turkish’ was like saying ‘random foreign music by poor people’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For all their pre-eminence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers from Austria and Germany would soon be competing for attention with a kaleidoscope of musical stars from elsewhere, notably Russia, France and the USA. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Instrument-specific music seems commonplace to us now, but it was a real novelty during this period, and one which was rapidly taken up by composers on mainland Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the Eroica symphony onwards, Beethoven self-consciously became a composer with a mission: he would change the world through his art. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By 1900 this ancient sound had fed like a river into the choral texture of all Russian composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Handel's significance in music history is that he was the first composer we can call truly international. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By commissioning Stravinsky for the 1910 season, no one could accuse Diaghilev of being sheepish with his choice of composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There are some ways to avoid having to do the transposition yourself, but learning to transpose can be very useful for performers, composers, and arrangers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was not sending away for classical music CDs by mail, working his way methodically through the major composers that the catalogue recommended, and always sending his payments in on time. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Never has an invitation to young composers been more enthusiastically embraced. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For children, there are many appropriate picture books and even videos on the lives and music of the most famous composers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By comparing this to the longest-lasting written notes of the period, researchers have painstakingly teased out what composers might have expected from slower directions such as largo and adagio. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Unusually for their time, Arcadelt’s madrigals and chansons were intended for performance by men and women, and their success inspired many other composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the century following the death of Dufay, life for composers whose livelihoods depended on the Church was to become both dangerous and unpredictable. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But it is not just his pan-European style that make Mahler such a paradigm for twentieth-century composers; he is also notable for the directness of his musical expression. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This was partly due to ecclesiastical interference - priests, bishops and cardinals knowing better than composers which sounds were godly, pure and appropriate - and partly due, I suppose, to fear of the unknown. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Jews were the greatest artists, the greatest poets, composers, stage directors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I Bought Me a Cat” is a traditional American song arranged by the famous American composer Aaron Copland. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This six-part ricercar is still, to this day, considered by musicians and composers the greatest, most complex feat of counterpoint of all time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The truth is, though, that from the 1940s until the 1990s, film composers tended to be a different breed from concert hall composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Different composers would have had different sounds in mind when they composed for the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was arguably more like a novelist than a composer in this respect, people falling for his music as they would a newly discovered secret passion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Clearly this was not satisfactory either for keyboard tuners or composers, who were in practical terms restricted to certain keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s by some famous composer,” she said lamely. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The composer will normally choose a time signature that makes the music easy to read and also easy to count and conduct24 . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harmonic analysis is also necessary for anyone who wants to be able to compose reasonable chord progressions or to study and understand the music of the great composers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But that music had already reached such a point by 1913 presented progressively minded composers of symphonic orchestral music with a dilemma: where to go from here? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This task would belong to a group of composers whose lives overlapped and found focus within the walls of one great city: Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He switches to an Alexander Scriabin sonata, winking over at Alex at the composer’s first name. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Later on—when she was twenty—she would be a great world-famous composer. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Vivaldi’s legacy survived in the somewhat surprising influence he had on another, very different, composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Though it was intended merely as a time-saving tool, its use began to change the way composers and keyboard players manipulated chords, changing the sound of harmony along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Minimalism had in fact begun to emerge, rather quietly, in the 1960s, but it made a louder entrance in the 1970s, spearheaded by American composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The problem was that composers were outgrowing not just the old modes and the restrictions placed on them but also the complicated system of tuning that allowed instruments to play in different keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Most voices can be assigned one of these four ranges, and this gives the composer four vocal lines to work with, which is usually enough. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Perotin strikes us, even today, as an irrepressibly adventurous creative force, a firecracker of a composer who conceived and wrote down the most complex simultaneous note clusters that had ever been heard. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Fellow composer Gustav Mahler described hearing this as the ‘greatest and most soul-wrenching experience of my life’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Josquin was the first composer in history for whom the meaning of the words being sung was paramount. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“But it must've been ace having a composer for a father.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It meant a retreat from the very florid and ornate polyphony that had obsessed composers for a hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the world descended into anxiety, paranoia and financial meltdown, not to mention Fascism and Stalinism, increasingly it was composers embracing popular forms who became the voice of conscience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This intelligence enables us to recognize, create, reproduce, and reflect on music, as demonstrated by composers, conductors, musicians, vocalists, and sensitive listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Polish composer Chopin’s heart was smuggled in a booze jar out of Paris and to a Warsaw church, where it was then stolen by Nazis before being returned. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.58: Normally, a composer who wants to put more or fewer beats in a measure must change the time signature, as in this example from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere on the continent, bloody wars, the threat of torture and the dampdown of liberties that accompanied the Counter-Reformation were making the choices composers made a matter of life and death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And hybrid forms, like the sonata rondo, can become popular with some composers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If the composer wants the change from one dynamic level to another to be gradual, different markings are added. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And Beethoven was the composer who began this transformation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It would fall to later composers to take more daring liberties with harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Burmer, also a musician, is one of eight composers with a premiere at Celebrate World Music. ‘Celebrate World Music’ stretches composers’ boundaries 2013-03-21T20:35:13Z

Marine Band marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, which included a world premiere by the composer Dominick DiOrio. Review | In Washington’s crowded choral scene, too much is just enough 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

As a representation of Mazzoli’s oeuvre, the works for solo violin seemed a little lacking, not revealing every dimension of a still-young composer who’s done so much good work in other media. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The sheer volume of music he has produced — scores for more than 100, a symphony and a dozen concertos — would cow many composers. Musical Titan Honors His Heroes 2011-08-18T17:15:27Z

The composer Steve Reich, another friend, said the mystery in Mr. Marshall’s work made it distinct. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

As a composer it is vital for me to help an audience learn how to hear music made right now. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

In his eighties he remained more consistently creative than any other great composer before him, even Verdi. From the archive, 7 April 1971: Stravinksy, the towering genius 2011-04-07T15:15:35Z

Elodie Lauten, an American composer known for her operatic setting of the work of Allen Ginsberg, died on June 3 in Manhattan. Elodie Lauten, Who Wove Opera From Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, Dies at 63 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

In turn, “John Somebody” announced a signature style that anticipated Mr. Reich’s landmark 1988 piece “Different Trains,” and had a strong influence on other composers. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

The composer Virgil Thomson was also one of the most astute and influential critics of the 20th century. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The juxtaposition drew an arc between the searching harmonies of Gesualdo, an Italian Renaissance composer, and those of Beethoven’s “Holy Song of Thanks From a Convalescent to the Divinity.” Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

John Williams has been Hollywood’s leading composer for over half a century. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Monty Norman, who was credited as the composer for "Dr. No," sued The Sunday Times in 2001 for reporting that Barry had been called in to help after Norman's inspiration faltered. 5-Oscar winner, composer John Barry, dies at 77 2011-01-31T11:20:09Z

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the New York Virtuoso Singers, a highly skilled chorus founded and directed by Harold Rosenbaum that specializes in contemporary music, commissioned 25 composers to write 25 short works. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Leonard Bernstein, Keller Quartet, Cassandra Miller and More 2013-12-18T18:17:02Z

On Brooklyn Rider’s album, the playing of Beethoven’s tender slow movement seemed to gain additional poignancy when coming after detours into the sounds of today’s avant-garde from composers like Du Yun and Matana Roberts. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

In April, the Icelandic composer and conductor co-curated the Reykjavík Festival for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

How does a composer depict such a horrific story without melodrama? Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The quiet clarity of his mathematically rigorous approach has also endeared him in recent years to the Wandelweiser school of composers and performers. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

But there is good music in it from a fashionable 40-year-old composer whose first opera reveals a genuine feeling for the theater. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mozart, like Mahler, was simply a better composer. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Three of Broadway's greatest composers are celebrated in this revue of show tunes presented by Seattle's Black Box Opera Company. Bumbershoot preview: Live performances 2010-09-03T00:00:00Z

But praising Europe for offering a platform for the music of Black American composers omits an important part of the story. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

I sometimes would have a little resistance to simply being characterized as “Disney composer Alan Menken” because I already had a huge hit with “Little Shop of Horrors” before I went to Disney. Alan Menken on ‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Mixed Blessing of Disney Fame 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

But Schulz cautioned that, while “people always identify him with just two or three composers, it’s much more than that.” One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

A gifted composer, he was expanding Round Trip's original repertoire at the time of his death, and planning a new tour for the band and a follow-up to their eponymously titled debut album. Richard Turner obituary 2011-08-28T12:25:31Z

Of all the great composers, Haydn seems to suffer most in terms of numbers. Classical Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-12-14T18:00:01Z

“I love her pace,” the composer Meredith Monk said recently at her TriBeCa loft. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

And while Mr. Wuorinen now acknowledges that his chosen style has fallen out of favor, he still doesn’t miss an opportunity to castigate tonal composers. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

That a composer once central to a nation’s musical identity should become so marginalized is hardly a phenomenon unique to Saint-Saëns. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

While Charlie’s teachers were novelists, composers and scientists, ours were asked to combine teaching and social work. His Family Had Money. Mine Didn’t. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

As over the top as the other works were minimalist, this was the product of a maverick composer whose music continues to delight, surprise and challenge the listener. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

After intermission Rountree turned to an Adams chestnut, “Shaker Loops,” the 1978 work in which the composer found his voice, in its original version for seven strings. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Only one, by American Tod Machover, one of Lucerne's two composers in residence this summer, sounded like Boulez. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Sunday afternoon program pairs two Liatoshynsky quartets with works by Bartok and Copland, composers who, like Liatoshynsky, are credited with defining a national style. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Howard Goodall is an award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z

Or at least the “molto allegro” style with which this composer is often associated. Review: At Carnegie, Going Beyond the Rapid-Fire Vivaldi 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

The piece, “Clapping Music,” was set to five minutes of rhythmic applause by the minimalist composer Steve Reich. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

Like the composer before her, she was beginning to understand “time through plant growth.” Music to My Elephant Ears 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final concert of his latest tour, is a green card holder based in New York. Syrian musician says Trump immigration order insults humanity 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

He had helped to create a touring show for his client, the composer and accidental reality TV star David Foster. ‘I Don’t Know What a Carrie Is’: Candace Bushnell Works It Out Onstage 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The January opening of this gripping new piece of music theater — Gordon, the composer, calls it an “operacal” — set the tone for a year in which words kept leaping into lyrics. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

He said the death of Hamlisch had not derailed the show, noting that it had songs to spare, and that the book writer and lyricist Rupert Holmes was also a composer. For Some Shows, Path to Broadway Is Pockmarked 2013-01-06T22:52:47Z

Feist and Chilly Gonzales, the composers of Limit To Your Love, meanwhile seem to be, at best, ambivalent about Blake's version. Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z

Then he circles back through those composers and, on Track 16, ends with the formidable fugue from that seminal Bach score. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

You hear elements of other composers and styles — Britten, Thomas Adès — in Mr. Aucoin’s music. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

It begins on Saturday with the 10-hour “Day Trip,” a sound installation and performance by the composer Adrian Knight with the percussion ensemble Tigue. Classical Music Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

She sings certain lines in one show with other composers’ music in mind. A Soprano Finds a New Voice: Conducting 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

If we expect authority from composers in their own music, we also anticipate special illumination from composers performing works by forebears. Krzysztof Penderecki's enticing program at Grant Park 2011-07-17T07:00:00Z

I am a classical composer and I’m a Chickasaw Indian from Oklahoma. “We had to replace the lyrics ‘ugg-a-wugg’”: Meet the “Native American consultant” who worked on NBC’s “Peter Pan” 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The 86-year-old composer is about to embark on a European tour which will include a rare performance in London. Morricone on Clint Eastwood regret 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The quote from Beaumarchais, “I laugh at everything in order not to cry,” projected on the scrim at the start, should be a mantra for today’s opera composers: Write more comedies! The Glimmerglass Festival and ‘A Quiet Place’ Reviews 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The nine nods for “Company” pack an especially emotional punch because its composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, died soon after attending the first post-shutdown preview. ‘A Strange Loop’ Nominated for 11 Tonys as Broadway Lauds Comeback 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Nathan now plays the piano at grade five standard; his favourite composers are Bach and Beethoven. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

The scourge of their existence is the “temp track”—the temporary soundtrack of preëxisting musical selections that is used to assemble a rough cut, and that the composer is then encouraged to mimic. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

I respect and even admire the composer’s choice not to answer these questions directly. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The pandemic shook every end of cultural life and, in doing so, gave composers, musicians and institutions alike fresh impetus to examine the very foundations of the art form. Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Take Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata, a piece that during Liszt’s years as a touring virtuoso was widely considered an incoherent, unplayable creation of an old, deaf and eccentric composer. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Rather he spotlighted the work of collaborators who include cinematographer Rob Hardy, concept artist Jock and composers Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury. SXSW 2015: Of humans and robots in sci-fi chamber drama 'Ex Machina' 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

“I’m looking for old great plays and musicals that haven’t been revived, and I’m meeting new fantastic writers and exciting young composers when I can,” he said. How Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald Will Host the Tony Awards 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

But as a composer “she fills up the whole room,” said the violist Nadia Sirota, who has performed her music and collaborated with her and Cabezas as a producer on the “Lost Coast” album. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

But even genius composers produce some uninspired music, like this symphony’s dutiful Andante and Menuet, which sounded rather severe. Music Review: The Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-20T23:06:06Z

The record is both a refinement of Ms. Davis’s strengths as composer and bandleader, and an expansion on them. Kris Davis, a Pianist Fighting for Fringe Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

As a composer and bassist, Linda May Han Oh is always trying to maintain a swift and multidirectional motion without sacrificing clarity or precision. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

The program, which will be repeated Thursday, included works by conservatives like Medtner and Joseph Marx and more daring composers like Szymanowski, Schreker and Berg, who continued Wagner’s assault on tonality. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z

It took further months for Mr. McLeod, now the musical’s executive producer, to secure the involvement of Mr. Hamlisch, the much-decorated composer of “A Chorus Line” and “The Way We Were.” Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ 2012-07-18T12:00:00Z

He is without peer among screenwriters as a composer of incisive, non-punchline-driven comic dialogue, and unrivaled among directors as a choreographer of fraught social encounters. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Scandinavia House The Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, at 58, bears a status many of his peers would recognize: celebrated in Europe, largely unknown in the United States. Music in Review 2011-01-24T23:22:42Z

The busy composer, who earlier held various composing affiliations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, says he kept recommending other composers. Jeremy Denk, in words and music 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

But there were so many other composers and styles of contemporary music that Boston audiences were not hearing. Critic?s Notebook: A Maestro?s Unfinished Legacy 2011-03-03T23:23:55Z

The film also launched the careers of Burton, who cemented his signature, quirky directing style, and music composer Danny Elfman, who went on to work with Burton on many projects. Here's Are New Set Photos From 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure' 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

But he also seems to want more from the composer than the surface splendor wherein the greatest wonder of Mendelssohn lies. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Poliakoff has described composer Adrian Johnston as his most vital collaborator: "We are aware that we had to make the songs attractive to modern audiences in this new drama." Dancing on the Edge: episode one 2013-02-04T22:30:01Z

"What other composer gets to do something like that?" How 'Arrested Development' and a Santa Ana residency led composer Lisa Bielawa to make an online opera 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

“Anything that brings our wonderfully and stylistically diverse composer community together is a good thing,” Panufnik said, adding, “I feel we should all be collaborating on projects more often.” Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

The plan is to record songs by an as-yet unrevealed composer: someone "not as famous as Gershwin or Porter ... but he did as many hit songs as anybody". Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to record jazz album 2012-10-01T11:18:49Z

Monday evening’s program offers the New York premiere of a work by the Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason; Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, with the young virtuoso Yuja Wang; and Brahms’s Second Symphony. | Classical: Left Coast, Meet Right Coast 2014-03-15T16:00:09Z

How I got the job, Altman had cassettes of mine and two other composers, and in his offices he would get drinks and smoke grass with the actors. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The composer was presumably writing for an amateur royal. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

For 17 days each spring, the festival created by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti lights up stages across Charleston. Spoleto Festival USA announces its 2013 season 2012-12-09T14:01:31Z

The composer said he quickly vetoed including or elaborating on songs Monroe had sung in films — for the purely practical reason that it would have been expensive to secure the rights to use them. 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The focus this year and next is the complete works of the great Austrian miniaturist Anton Webern, juxtaposed with composers both long before and after him. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Toward the beginning of the episode focussed on Balter, archival audio makes an appearance: the budding composer, singing among a group of toddlers. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

Arlen's composing ambitions were stalled when he first arrived in Chicago, but he was eventually taken under the wing of the American composer Roy Harris. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

That much was all but guaranteed in a program celebrating the Gershwin brothers: the composer George and the lyricist Ira. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Johnson was a Philadelphia musician, bandleader and composer during the 1800s and was the first published black composer of sheet music. Rhiannon Giddens, Francis Johnson to get Americana award 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ironically, the Norton Simon was, in its previous existence as the Pasadena Art Museum, primarily devoted to modern art, with a history of hosting contemporary composers. Putting art to music, with wondrous results 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

With 11 nominations, the composer and bandleader Jon Batiste leads all artists. What’s on TV This Week: ‘How to Survive a Pandemic’ and the Grammy Awards 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

The award for single record goes to the artist and producer, whereas the trophy for best song is given to the artist and composer. Miranda Lambert eyes top honors at country awards 2011-04-03T17:57:20Z

“The candy is a bribe, helps get them interested,” said Ms. Mann, who sets up a small celebration in the lobby every few weeks for a composer on his or her birthday. Character Study: Lucy Mann Keeps American Composers’ Spirits Alive 2013-05-11T01:22:41Z

Rousset made the connection and substantiated the find, identifying elements of the composer’s musical signature in the work. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

She will appear, again under the auspices of New York City Opera, at the Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center with songs by female composers. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Is Anton Bruckner, an earlier-generation Austrian composer who also wound up in Vienna, edging out Mahler as the symphonist with which to show your stuff? Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Copy editors will want to make it conventional-looking; fact-checkers want it to be exactly as represented by the composer or the playwright or the writer.” where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Playing all six Beethoven quartets spoke both to musical influences on the then-young composer, as well as to the early development of his original ideas. 'The Emerson' returns to Seattle, promising world-class musical experience 2010-04-07T23:54:00Z

Ms. Sturtevant was, in essence, a composer writing variations on predecessors’ themes. Elaine Sturtevant, Appropriation Artist, Is Dead at 89 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

As interpreted by the composer and director, the plays explore spirituality as a kind of longing, almost a love affair, between mortal and spirit beings. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim, the show’s composer, attended the production, which received strong reviews in the British media and transferred to a cocktail lounge in the West End. British Production of ‘Sweeney Todd’ to Set Up Shop Off Broadway 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ranking all the great composers of the past suddenly made musical taste itself very much like a sport; people responded to Tommasini’s challenge in droves, fighting passionately about the merits of Rossini or Vivaldi. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

The composer, performance artist and vocal wizard Meredith Monk has been weaving her strange magic in a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall this season, where she has been composer in residence. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Sondheim is by far the best lyricist and composer to work in Broadway in the second half of the twentieth-century, and Woods is one of his major works. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

A generation of Chinese opera composers have come of age in the West, making for a new genre that draws from both Eastern and Western operatic traditions. Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

He remained semidetached from his fellow composers, finding them, not entirely without reason, cliquish. A Composer of Dark Explosions Turns 100 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, she went for long solo drives at night, where she’d listen to her favorite classical composers — Debussy, Chopin — and sit with the city’s emptiness. Dawn Richard Will Find a Way to Be Heard 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Knussen is 60 this year, and the festival will celebrate his work as both conductor and composer. This week's new live music 2012-06-01T23:05:57Z

Mr. Adès, 39, is best known as a British composer, one of the most skilled and original of his generation. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z

Friday evening opened with a birthday celebration for the composer Joan Tower, who turned 80 in September. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

His omnipresence on awards and talk shows made him one of the last in a line of celebrity composers that included Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim. Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z

But the irritable composer — who would later remove the dedication to Napoleon from his Third Symphony — eventually took it back. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

And the staggeringly difficult Sonata No. 2 seemed more than ever a young composer’s modernist retort to Beethoven’s mighty “Hammerklavier.” Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The conductor Joel Sachs, who designed the festival and led Friday’s concert, said in a phone interview that a British composer had told him bluntly: “We’d all starve without the BBC.” In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Other Wagnerians make structure sound like something that’s inevitable, but with him this composer’s scores sound as if they are perpetually being created, discovered, revealed in transition. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

In the surpassingly lovely “Cairns,” the composer and musicologist Gelsey Bell guided you, earbuds first, on a sound walk through Green-Wood Cemetery, asking you to contemplate the natural world and human interventions within it. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

In that sense, these paintings, mostly made in the late 1760s or shortly after, have a musical analogue, an exercise in aural portraiture from a half­century earlier by the great composer François Couperin. Review | A recently discovered document unlocks the mystery of Fragonard 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Its founder and one of its main composers, Clément Mélomé, was on saxophone. Music Review: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Plays Funk 2010-07-12T21:54:00Z

“If there is a definition of an African-American composer, there isn’t a single profile, there isn’t a single mold,” Mr. Lewis said. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Yes, Mozart was among the most performed composers at the Proms in their first half-century – but he achieved that prominence through the inclusion of countless operatic arias and concertos, rather than his symphonies. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z

The composer likes overlaying metres to produce trancelike effects, savouring within them the shifting detail furnished by his remarkable drummer and childhood friend, Kaspar Rast. Nik B?rtsch's Ronin: Llyria ? review 2010-12-16T22:30:01Z

The novelty of Gustavo Dudamel's four Los Angeles Philharmonic programs at the Hollywood Bowl this summer is that each is devoted to a single composer, with one slight exception. Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The exuberantly profane show by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez tells the story of two Mormon missionaries sent to spread the word in Uganda. Broadway hit 'The Book of Mormon' lands in London 2013-03-22T16:16:05Z

Where Mehretu saturates space, Sorey vacates it, yet both painter and composer offer vital examples of how to create at full scale when the times impel others to reduce their ambition. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

But it was in the second half of his life that Mr. Motian found himself as a composer and a bandleader, and his own work took off. Paul Motian, Jazz Drummer, Is Dead at 80 2011-11-22T18:11:38Z

Just when revivals can start to feel rote, Alden’s staging — sleekly symbolist yet not too abstract — can help us recall that the composer himself was an ambitious creative spirit. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

The same month, the composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter told The Times that he and his quartet “never rehearse anything.” What’s on TV Wednesday: The Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Nova’ 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Somehow this happens especially in , perhaps because opera composers so often tailored their works to the specific tastes of the theaters and audiences for which they were writing. Music Review: Reviving a Rarity, Right on Time 2011-05-20T02:59:37Z

Mr. Bynum, a cornetist, composer, bandleader and former student of Mr. Braxton’s at Wesleyan University, took a moment to describe the cues and signals that would further convolute the interpretation of the piece. The Tri-Centric Festival Honors Anthony Braxton 2011-10-04T21:19:10Z

The winners were selected by a panel of composers. Winners Chosen in Program to Aid Female Composers 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

She studied music at York University and the Royal College of Music and spent several years as composer in residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Dean of Armenian music and a composer with close ties to the Armenian community in Glendale, he has an international following thanks to a series of ECM recordings of arresting, otherworldly music. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

When applied to music it refers specifically to the music of Mozart, Haydn and other composers of the period from around 1760-1810. Notes and queries: When red lights might not mean stop; What makes classical music classical music? Why Ludo and Monopoly players are good sports 2010-08-31T23:05:00Z

“The festival is giving a platform not just for choreographers but for musicians, composers, set designers and costume designers. It’s about everyone behind the scenes, as well.” Advocacy group wants to see more Asian dancers on the stage, and more Asian choreographers on the program 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

American composers were wrestling with national identity long before Dvorak’s arrival. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

As composers, we don't leave our children buildings or land. Songwriter Omar Alfanno launches hits project 2010-04-16T22:41:00Z

The Sinking of the Titanic, by composer Gavin Bryars, a piece inspired by the song the Titanic band was playing as the ship went down. Bloc 2012: making music out of chaos 2012-07-09T16:48:00Z

The French-born composer wrote it shortly after his arrival in the United States, where he spent much of his career. Morlot celebrates rhythm in next concert 2011-09-22T21:27:04Z

In a phone interview Mr. Bingham shed doubt on a famous anecdote according to which Maelzel sent 200 metronomes for free to as many composers. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Two composers, one French and one Polish, wrote piano sonatas in 1952 and 1953 that were explosive statements of their times. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

So it’s only appropriate that he has planned “Music U.,” a program of works by composers associated with the Ivy League. Classical & Opera Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The “name” category lists only movements, not composers or pieces; in the “album” section, the Philharmonic listings are vague, like “Romantic Schoenberg and Brahms.” Digital and Direct Sales Now Bring Orchestras to Fans 2010-04-02T20:56:00Z

There’s a new lyricism in a lot of contemporary music that Ehnes feels is due to the influence of American composers. It’s the ‘golden age’ of U.S. composing, Seattle chamber-music fest director proclaims 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

His music was from the European Baroque, Vivaldi and Corelli, but this ballet tells everyone that these composers are now American property too. Balanchine’s ‘Square Dance’ Speaks Ballet With an American Accent 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Tetzlaff, however, weighted the three movements evenly, making it an ideal companion for the Seventh Symphony that the older and wiser composer would eventually produce. Salonen Was Born to Conduct Sibelius 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

Passages in the harmonically rich score highlight Britten’s ingenuity as a choral composer: the descending patterns sung by the men in the third verse, for example, with the boys’ voices soaring above. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

The 76-year-old composer, who divides his time between Yerevan and Glendale, represents both to his country, where he is a national figure, and the international music community, the soul of Armenia. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Even in her selection of this composer’s work: Weill, an exile artist whose sound exemplified Weimar Berlin before helping to shape Broadway’s golden age, was split between two countries. Review: A Soprano’s Recital Captures Her Brilliant Sincerity 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

In a series of three programs presented by Carnegie Hall, the thoughtful young American pianist Jonathan Biss explores “The Late Style,” that is, music written late in life by various composers. Classical Works From the Winter of Life, at Carnegie Hall 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“The purpose is really to demonstrate what a natural composer Henze was, writing for the theater.” Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The New York Times reported in 1936 that the French composer and critic Reynaldo Hahn had described it as “imposing, lofty, minutely elaborated” and “always compelling admiration.” With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

“A composer asks questions a musician would not think to ask,” he said. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

But both on Wednesday and on Monday, the focus was almost entirely on nonnative composers. Review | Lakota music gets short shrift in concert meant to celebrate it 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

It was there she met composer Neil Brand, who put her in touch with the Barbican. The great St Trinian's school reunion 2011-04-07T22:00:00Z

On Saturday, the second day of programming traced a pedagogical lineage from Liatoshynsky to several living composers. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

Anyone searching today for the complete box set of “Sonic Meditations” won’t find it, because, as the composer wrote, “music is a welcome by-product” of this composition. Listening as Activism: The “Sonic Meditations” of Pauline Oliveros 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

"They take me out of myself," he said, noting the miraculous conspiring of technology, programmers, designers and composers to create layered worlds of frenetic imagery that afford repose. Tom Bissell's 'Apostle' takes a ride-along through unanswerable questions about Jesus' disciples 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Is it any wonder why composers working in the film industry turn to the concert hall? Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The composer appears again on Thursday’s program, in the first of three concerts, titled “The Planets.” Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

A composer and scholar who has spoken forcefully about the exclusion of Black artists from experimental music will lead the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble, the group announced on Friday. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

"Basca is delighted that The Ivors continue to be the award songwriters and composers want to win, and I congratulate everyone represented here today," he added. London Grammar vie for top Novello 2014-04-24T10:56:16Z

While working on his Ph.D. in composition at Columbia, he worked with the French spectral composer Tristan Murail and the American experimentalist George Lewis. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

For Figgis-Vizueta, the creation of active creative space for living, breathing communities of composers might be even more important than repairing a long-broken history. Women composers take the spotlight — and the National Cathedral bell tower — at WoCo Fest 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Walsh, the author of a biography of Stravinsky, details the French composer’s personal struggles alongside his musical breakthroughs, portraying him as a harbinger of 20th-century modernism. New in Paperback: ‘Invisible’ and ‘Little Faith.’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

Tucker was a much-admired Verdi interpreter at the Met, so it seemed fitting that the program included several arias by the composer. Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z

At one point, Halprin, who turns 95 this month, came out and danced directly for Riley, as though a miraculous later-day Salome, and decades seemed to fall away from both her and the composer. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

But, there are “lots of wonderful composers,” he added, and planning a season is not a process “where we have a checklist, or fill in slots and say, ‘We’ve got to have an American.’ ” Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

And that is largely how Boulanger, who died in 1979 at 92, is still remembered today, as a great teacher who taught great composers. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Over five nights, it offered pieces by 14 musicians, eight of them relatively young composers who recently participated in the foundation’s tuition-free summer academy. Five Nights of New Music, From Gentle to Terrifying 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Balanchine, whose musical perceptions were as acute as those of many major composers, bequeathed Mr. Martins not just a company but an audience eager for contemporary music. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

Is being a pop singer-songwriter and a Broadway composer a double life? Sheik navigates Broadway, pop worlds 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The 93-year old Kraft, who is the dean of Los Angeles composers and was present on Tuesday, thinks of himself as an American Impressionist. With a magnificent Piano Spheres recital, Mark Robson resonates in the new year 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

It's safe to say, though, that Seattle's total of 18 works from major composers goes well beyond the usual scope of the celebratory commission. SSO's Schwarz goes out with fanfare: 18 new pieces by U.S. composers debut this season 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

His Beethoven and Brahms Symphonies remain among the most tightly reasoned and precisely executed on the market, and his collaborations on those composers’ piano concertos, with Leon Fleisher, are still the gold standard. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

It said that the award recognized the contribution of Mr. Sondheim, the composer and lyricist of musicals including “Into the Woods,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” and “Company,” to London theater. ArtsBeat: An Olivier Award for Sondheim 2011-03-04T17:07:47Z

As a composer, he wrote more than 200 pieces of music. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

His musical output alone would be deemed sufficient by many successful composers. A sonata in two movements 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

When the composer Hans Zimmer was approached to score “Dune,” the new movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel, he knew one thing absolutely: It would not sound like “Star Wars.” How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

There he was a pioneer of innovative programming and a champion of contemporary music, especially by American composers. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z

On Saturday, an evening built around Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, ushers handed out playbills that listed composers’ names but not their biographies, inspirations or influences. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sondheim would later study independently with Milton Babbitt, the avant-garde composer. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

This refusal to settle might say something about Mr. Mitchell’s identity as a composer — of extremely demanding music that not everybody can play — and as a kind of perfectionist, a creature of preparation. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

I’m “here” to virtually attend a rehearsal of “Stride,” a stirring newer work from the British composer Anna Clyne. How a mannequin head could revolutionize how orchestras and audiences come together 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

A spokesman for the company said that as the work gets closer to completion, Mr. Heath will work with a composer with more operatic experience. ArtsBeat: Opera Philadelphia to Take On Andy Warhol 2014-04-24T17:30:19Z

"The guest composers are capturing the spirit of artists through themselves, writing new music that interests them," says Morlot. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

It gives audiences an intimate look at the composer’s life and creative process. Sondheim on 'Sondheim on Sondheim' at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Beck plans to begin with Three Movements from Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” a piece the composer arranged for Arthur Rubinstein in 1921. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

This shift has been driven by a new generation of composers who grew up with rock, are disdainful of contemporary music dogma and draw from any system and style that suits their compositional ends. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

As an adult, he ran a grocery shop in Westminster, was an abolitionist and composer and moved in leading literary, political and artistic circles, which was exceptional for a Black man at that time. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

It's more indebted to Tchaikovsky than anyone else, and less revealing of the later composer than the curious Caprice Bohémien, otherwise known as the Capriccio on Gypsy Themes. Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 etc - review 2011-07-28T22:00:04Z

After Army service in World War II, he attended the University of Southern California; he later studied privately for several years with the American modernist composer George Antheil. Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z

Instead, as one description of the new fund stated, “Our audience members and supporters become commissioners themselves, actively shaping a world where emerging composers can flourish.” How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

But the storm passed, suitably, in time for Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll,” a birthday gift from the composer to his wife after the birth of their son, Siegfried. Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Gets Personal in Central Park 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Widmann holds a rare position among composers of his generation. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas was signaling that under his leadership the orchestra would champion idiosyncratic American composers, especially West Coasters like Harrison. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z

We would like to say that when it’s all said and done, no composer of any notoriety will leave this earth without having written for saxophone.” 2010-01-31T06:12:00Z

It's another controlled, layered performance, in a drama that flows from subtle erotic tension to tearful confrontation, modulated by Chopin and minimal piano music by composer Dustin O'Halloran. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

This January, however, he was in Paris, working on both “Così” and Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” the only one of that composer’s operas he hadn’t yet conducted. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

“Tchaikovsky’s Struggle With Fate” features that composer’s Symphony No. 4 and “Blast!” by David Stock. All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET 2012-08-31T21:48:03Z

In addition to the composer herself on piano, her septet includes Angelica Sanchez on a Moog synthesizer, the violist Mat Maneri and the trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum — all of whom possess distinctive profiles as interpreters. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

It was surprising to hear how many of the 13 encore pieces — from eminent composers hailing from New Zealand, Finland, Israel and many points in between — were more or less variations on a similar theme. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z

He was thus the first performer and composer to substantially bridge the musical gap between India and the west. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z

If an outlier composer wrote an original tenor, the Mass was somewhat dismissively deemed a "missa sine nomine," a Mass without a name. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fulmer is also attracting increasing attention as a composer, with a Lincoln Center concerto premiere and a Carnegie Hall commission already under his belt. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z

Isherwood pointed out that it hadn’t been long since Miranda was “teaching high school English while scribbling songs on the side,” trying to make it as a musical-theater composer. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

In Robert Wyatt's Was a Friend, the composer dreams of a former pal with whom he'd had a falling out. Readers recommend: songs about forgiveness – results 2012-11-15T14:00:00Z

And the videos, which will involve collaborations between artists and composers, may annoy those who would rather lose themselves in the music. Architecture Review: Gehry Design Plays Fanfare for the Common Man 2011-01-23T19:50:38Z

Originally, the composer had used an organ for a final bit of rhythmic mischief but replaced it with an electric bass when it became clear how few concert halls have a proper instrument. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Many conductors have tried programming that links a past master with a living or a 20th-century composer. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

Photographed in 1904 while in New York, the composer somberly stares at the viewer on the stand of Johannes Faber from Vienna. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z

Meanwhile a generation of stylistically omnivorous young composers has followed Mr. Corigliano’s lead. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z

Up to 1,000 local people will perform Crowd Out, described by US composer David Lang as being "an orchestra of people using their voices". Amateur choirs debut Arsenal piece 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Youssef, who spent most of her childhood in Europe, was already a known composer and singer in Syria before the conflict erupted. Politics commandeer stage in Mideast TV contest 2013-05-12T18:29:08Z

She was a star when she attended the New England Conservatory, one of the rare private composition students of the school’s president, the eminent composer George Whitefield Chadwick. Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The concert opens with “Let the River Be Unbroken” by George Tsontakis, the orchestra’s composer in residence, and ends with Copland’s complete “Appalachian Spring” with pantomime. A Festival Built for Risky Business 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

Mr. Sachs ventures to areas of the globe largely unexplored by others, emerging on Sunday with living composers from Australia, Sweden, Uzbekistan and, a bit closer to home, Los Angeles. New-Music Performances Open the MoMA Summergarden Series 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

A lush, brooding celebration of noise, “Seven Pillars” is the sprawling result of a deep collaboration between a composer and a percussion quartet. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

When the orchestra comes to Carnegie Hall in January, it will play the composer’s “An American Port of Call.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I just was so flummoxed by it,” she said, still referring to the composer in the present tense. Put Down Your Phone! It’s Patti LuPone. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Often called the dean of African-American composers, Mr. Still also worked with Langston Hughes — on “Troubled Island,” which played at New York City Opera in 1949. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This composer, diarist and reluctant pioneer of gay liberation was nearing 95 at the time, and had me convinced that he would live at least another five more. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Although he did not consider himself a poet, Kambanellis also wrote some fine lyric poems that were turned into memorable songs by Greece's leading composers. Iakovos Kambanellis obituary 2011-04-04T17:23:29Z

Nothing novel there. Plenty of  ’40s musicals had been built around the songs of the best pop composers. Singin' in the Rain Is Back: What a Glorious Feeling! 2012-07-12T20:14:04Z

He was halfway up when the police arrived to see the naked composer trying to break into his own house. Book review: ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,’ by Lee Mendelson

No classical composer in recent memory, not even the inescapable Philip Glass, has had a commercial success to rival that of the late Polish master Henryk Górecki. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Honegger was the better composer, while Ibert proved the more operatically engaging. Expect the unexpected on recordings of Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The public reaction when two of the songs were introduced at a concert in Vienna was so hostile that their aggrieved composer never had them performed again. Review: For Armory Recitals, a Modest but Memorable Return 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

As a longtime champion of contemporary music, I was gratified to receive so many objections to my decision to eliminate living composers from consideration. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Call it borrowing or lifting, direct quotation has been a staple of the composer’s arsenal since the dawn of Western music. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Barenboim’s lack of interest in the ur-Austria of lakes, meadows, and mountain peaks didn’t hurt his interpretation of the Seventh Symphony, one of the composer’s supreme masterpieces, which he led on January 27th. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Handel discovered Beard as a boy, when he sang in the composer's oratorio, Esther. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z

Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and ensemble leader who infuses rock, folk and other musical traditions with her jazz background. MacArthur ‘genius’ grants launch winners from obscurity: ‘Now I feel like I’m working with a face’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Frank, a Broadway composer, starts the show jaded and successful before regressing to his bright-eyed past. ‘Merrily’ This Film Will Roll Along. For the Next 20 Years. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

But to Bernstein, Nielsen, who died in 1931, was a craggy individualist, a composer who found his own path into the tumultuous 20th century, whose symphonies were exciting and significant works. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

Misha Mengelberg, a Dutch pianist and composer who approached the jazz tradition with an adventurous spirit and an antic sense of humor, died on March 3 in Amsterdam. Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Cellist and composer Julian Lloyd Webber speaks to BBC Breakfast about his special plans to perform with his brother and wife on his 60th Birthday. VIDEO: Lloyd Webber's musical birthday 2011-04-12T11:30:20Z

Going forward, it’s easy to see “12 Sunsets” inspiring a new generation of West Coast artists or minimalist composers. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Only the most fervent enthusiast of the composer would argue for the piece being a neglected masterpiece – but it certainly holds more than mere novelty value. BBCSSO/Titov 2010-04-18T20:45:00Z

American composer Charles Wuorinen saw the operatic potential of the doomed romance between two Wyoming sheep herders, however, and asked Proulx to write the libretto. Brokeback Mountain opera gives voice to frustrated cowboy love 2014-01-27T16:36:01Z

It was a wonderful way to underline the singing, melodious, gentle side of a composer too often stereotyped as craggy and slightly awkward. Eschenbach, NSO offer mammoth but gentle Bruckner in season’s final program.

But the Franck, which the composer completed in 1888, would not be downed. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Obligatory anti-piracy rant: Classical composer Maria Schneider made the event’s first plea for an overhauled copyright law that cracks down on music piracy. Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis big early winners 2014-01-27T01:01:00Z

The Greek composer, 74, wasn’t asked to score the sequel — that job fell to Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch, who co-composed a score with traces of Vangelis for the summer’s “Dunkirk.” How to compete with the original ‘Blade Runner’ score: Pay homage to it 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Just as Zimmer worked with Honegger in the spring of 1944 on “Chant de Libération,” in 1945 Bernard chose the composer for his first postwar film despite the contrast in their wartime fates. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

We are too close to living composers to have perspective. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

That catalog could include, for example, the vaudeville music of the composer and lyricist team Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, whose 1921 show “Shuffle Along” was a landmark of Black Broadway. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

“You normally have, with a composer, giant egos, and wanting to argue about everything, and ‘I want it to be my score, not your score,’” Lucas said. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Indeed, you need not look very far for a shared sensibility among L.A. born and raised conductors, with Michael Tilson Thomas, David Robertson and Leonard Slatkin among the composer’s most devoted and persuasive champions. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Galina Ustvolskaya’s centennial quietly came and went last year, but those familiar with this reclusive Russian composer’s temperament might say she would have preferred it that way. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

We see the Opera Theater of St. Louis and Long Beach Opera and Opera Philadelphia involved with community and creating new works by composers of color; that’s been a great trend. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

At the BBC, I was getting a lot of quite decent solo work with composers such as Boulez and Ligeti, who knew me by name. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

At times, the music was reminiscent of the composer Jonny Greenwood’s tonally lush yet harmonically mysterious soundtracks for the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Still, she said she sometimes finds it difficult to perform works by Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky. A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

He is not just involved with living composers, he is one, and with an extensive personal network of composer colleagues. The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Together, they are a substantial showcase for a composer best known for his artfully impassioned songs, and for his eclecticism and versatility. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

Granted, it isn’t technically Lawrence’s song, as it’s credited to the film’s composer James Newton Howard and features the actress on vocals, but still, it counts. People Love Jennifer Lawrence's Mockingjay Song Despite How Much She Hates It 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Having skipped ahead to the 20th century in our ambitious quest to identify the top 10 classical composers of all time, let’s shift back to the crowded and complex 19th century. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

But there is a palpable poignancy to I Miss the Music, charting a composer's dependence on his lyricist and underscored by our knowledge of Ebb's death during the show's production. Theatre review 2010-07-07T01:12:00Z

A: When I play, I just try to devote myself to music, to the composer, and to the audience. Nobuyuki Tsujii to play in Seattle recital, ‘Celebrate Asia’ 2013-01-17T22:09:46Z

Following the brief New York visit, this lion-maned Australian composer and performer was off to Hungary and Croatia, to play Friar Tuck in a new Robin Hood feature. Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

She also revealed a distinctive melodic talent as a composer for her first husband, piano virtuoso Paul Bley. 50 great moments in jazz: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill 2011-01-18T13:06:04Z

Iván Fischer’s endlessly magnificent orchestra arrives in town for two programs, consisting entirely of Beethoven, a composer whom the conductor interprets willfully, at times. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

It was the first work by a Black composer to be performed in the Met’s 138-year history. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

After that, "I didn't want to do another film," the composer recalled. John Corigliano remembers surprise Oscar win for 'The Red Violin' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The recital closed with a wistful rendition of Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 12 in F, nicknamed “American” because it was composed during this Czech composer’s three-year sojourn in the United States. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z

“We’re trying to remind people that a musician at this time period is not necessarily a composer first, the way that we think of them today,” Waltz said. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

But he was self-taught as a composer and endured a lifelong struggle to win recognition. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

How is it different to sing Stephen's songs versus other composers' songs? Stephen Sondheim, Rob Marshall and Meryl Streep on 'Into the Woods' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Swed also reviews Bang on a Can at the Ford Theatres — which represented the premiere of its new work “Road Trip,” marking the 30th anniversary of the innovative New York composers collective. Essential Arts & Culture: Kusama-palooza, Getty Center's birthday, censored Hollywood public art 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

By the end of the Salonen era, the new-music series, Green Umbrella, was drawing crowds of well over a thousand people, causing visiting composers to do double-takes when they walked onstage. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The idea for the 20-minute piece came from a vision the composer had while visiting a snowy Canadian landscape. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

In the tall filing cabinets to my left are hundreds of such notes and letters from composers and writers, conductors and record producers, musical colleagues and my dearest friends. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon Mr. Glass ceded the stage to other performers and composers again, but there was an important subtext embedded in his disparate assemblage. Music Review: Tune-In Music Festival Salutes Philip Glass 2012-02-28T23:15:03Z

People automatically assume Bach was this dry, dour, mathematical composer. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

They can't actually be talking about the same Italian opera, because Johnson died before the composers that Stein is on about – Rossini, Puccini and Verdi – were born. Rick Stein's Food of the Italian Opera 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z

Gabriel Prokofiev, the grandson of the 20th Century composer Sergei Prokofiev, is presenting the world premiere of his new violin concerto at the BBC Proms. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

But when Death must woo the Maiden, the composer conjures an alluring dreamscape of harps, strings and vibraphones. Review: Thomas Adès Leads the Philharmonic, and Björk Listens 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

These are just some of the revelations in HBO’s documentary “Six by Sondheim,” about the composer and lyricist, to be broadcast on Monday. Send in the Cameras: Sondheim on TV 2013-12-06T21:32:34Z

She evinced a keen interest in music as a girl; later, she gained a mentor in the noted composer and singer Chabuca Granda. Afro-Peruvian rhythms featured at Howard Theatre

“I want a composer who communicates,” he told The New York Times in 1982, “not one who plays cerebral games.” Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z

When purists ask how a director or choreographer can dare to present action to music in a way that was far from the composer’s intention, there is no better example to show them than this. 2010-01-30T05:48:00Z

At 46, he is one of the most impressive composers of his generation, creating works that are sumptuously savage but not heavy, direct but never simple. Your Guide to the Met Opera’s ‘Exterminating Angel’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Julia Wolfe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, said that a “New Sounds” program about the early days of Bang on a Can, which she helped found, helped them find new listeners at a key moment. WNYC Is Dropping ‘New Sounds’ After 37 Years. Musicians Are Mourning. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

And he did not want the same composer on every night. Advice for Running the Paul Taylor Company? ‘Keep Them Laughing’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

An esteemed pianist, composer and instructor, Ms. Crothers encouraged students to invest in their intuition, and to chase improvisations as far as they could go. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Here, Dionysus — played by Ariah Lester, also the composer of the few songs peppered throughout — acts instead as a catalyst for an actual bacchanal. At the Holland Festival, Many Shades of Strange 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Another example is Mr. Hartke, one of the most audaciously original and accomplished composers of today, who teaches at the University of Southern California. 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z

But then, in the postwar, palette-cleansing neoclassicism of composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, perhaps Rachmaninov saw new possibilities. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z

The whole was enthusiastically accepted by the largely Asian audience, and the composer appeared for a bow. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z

She talked with ragtime composer Eubie Blake, who recounted growing up the son of slaves and bringing his pioneering musical “Shuffle Along” to Broadway in 1921. 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

A budding composer, Boulanger set her sights on the Prix de Rome. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Though he is the composer for HBO's drama series "The Leftovers," which begins its second season in October, Richter clearly isn't the kind of composer to automatically genuflect before Hollywood executives. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Greilsammer has a special gift for devising programs that make bold leaps from composer to composer over centuries, usually played without interruption. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z

Masterminding that initiative was Otto H. Kahn, a German-born financier, arts patron and advocate of American composers, who joined the Met’s board determined to reshape the company’s heavily German profile. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

It features the Los Angeles players in works by two Black composers: William Grant Still and Jessie Montgomery, as well as a set of songs by Florence Price, sung by the mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

A painter, photographer, filmmaker and translator, Wagner sat on the board of trustees of the Richard Wagner Foundation, which was formed in 1973 to oversee the estate of the composer. Composer Wagner's great granddaughter Iris dies at 71 2014-01-10T15:27:46Z

For her, she said, it evokes the explosive chemistry when a singer or composer and the right song collide. Music Review: Christine Andreas in ‘Bemused,’ at 54 Below 2013-01-29T23:07:45Z

He was tapped by a foundation established by the composer’s grandson to record Rachmaninoff’s unpublished works, using the composer’s own piano. Pacific Day marks the Maori New Year

Even worse, that film’s composer, Vangelis, is still alive and kicking. Have we reached peak Hans Zimmer? 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Canto Ostinato,” a keyboard piece by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt made of overlapping layers and repeated patterns, has amassed a cult following — in the Netherlands, at least. The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The novelist Frederick Forsyth had a crack and then Ben Elton took over, working with the composer and the lyricist, Glenn Slater: four hands rather than two, and it shows in a muddled first half. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

The concert opened with “These Particular Circumstances, ” by Sean Shepherd, a 30-year-old bassoonist and composer from a family of Nevada ranchers. Music Review: Contact! ? Philharmonic New-Music Series at Symphony Space 2010-04-18T22:58:00Z

In operas by French composers she was again at her best, not least in Esclarmonde. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical, Cats, will return to Broadway, the legendary composer announced Monday. Andrew Lloyd Webber Says 'Cats' Will Return to Broadway 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

The world is not waiting for you as a composer. Composer Gruber to conduct Bernstein, Stravinsky, his own ‘Rough Music’ at SSO 2013-04-11T20:43:51Z

Like other composers of his generation, Schumann, born in 1810, lived under the shadow of Beethoven. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

The composer died in 1945 with the work still in sketch form, only the solo part complete and even it not in a final form. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Robert Ashley, the brilliant, innovative American composer who died in March last year at 83, created a distinctive operatic aesthetic, a surrealist, meditative style instantly recognizable as his own. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

A Catholic, Philips left Britain in his early 20s, living first in Rome and later in various cities in the Low Countries, where he became a highly regarded court organist and composer. Philips: Cantiones Sacrae 1612 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z

“As a composer, Sting has combined classic pop with virtuoso musicianship and an openness to all genres and sounds from around the world,” the award committee wrote in a statement. Sting and Wayne Shorter Win Polar Music Prize 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Thanks to his rich catalog of symphonic and chamber music, Still, who died in 1978 at 83, was widely known as the pathbreaking “dean” of Black American composers. A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

By bringing together composers from Bach to Barber who spanned three centuries, Mr. Barnatan created an historical public domain for his rapt listeners. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Some composers you can hear everything as one line,” Davis said. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

As with so many such projects, Neon Indian is the brainchild of one composer, Alan Palomo, and the music he's made is nostalgic, occasionally rueful, but always tuneful. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Rarely does a composer present a new work haunted so openly and pervasively by a predecessor’s. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Shea was the music programmer for “Public Enemies,” arranger for “Madagascar 2” and “Despicable Me,” and composer of additional music for “Lone Survivor,” “Transformers: The Dark of the Moon” and “Battleship.” Composing for flamingos: Duo pens score for nature special 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

On a strangely comforting morning in early March, the composer Heather Christian made her way to Ars Nova’s space in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, for the first time in two years. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

In addition to the interpretations of great composers and the musical portraits on the new album, Corea also recorded two examples of a feature he’s also been playing with onstage: The guest improviser. On new album, Chick Corea plays with a piano and his fans 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Hamlisch, who died at age 68 last year, was Seattle Symphony’s principal pops conductor as well as one of America’s most recognized composers. SSO mounts Marvin Hamlisch tribute 2013-02-20T19:02:49Z

It caused quite a stir, but not the kind of stir that a composer necessarily wants. Pomp and circumstances: Britten's Gloriana 2013-06-19T17:55:27Z

A songwriter with a knack for story and a taste for strange, he won the Jonathan Larson grant for early career composers. The Guy Behind ‘Be More Chill’ Is Keeping It in the Family 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

As a composer and arranger, Mr. Robinson likes to gather mass by accretion, stacking woodwind or brass lines over Mr. Gress’s unshakable grooves. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

The chosen composers’ approaches are anything but lock step in nature: Pascal Le Boeuf’s “Forbidden Subjects” makes the most of the group’s propulsive qualities, while Jenny Beck’s “Go in Secret” revels in more ambient realms. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

One of the great conductors of the 20th century, he was also a composer, educator, television personality and political activist who at one point hobnobbed with the Black Panthers. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

Among those most rankled was the composer Stephen Sondheim, himself no stranger to bold re-interpretations of his own work, who sent in this letter to the editor on Tuesday. ArtsBeat Blog: Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped 'Porgy and Bess' 2011-08-10T16:12:09Z

Then, of the two October subscription programs, the first was dominated by living composers. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

This season, the 24-year-old polymath is back, now as a composer with a much larger platform: the New York Philharmonic. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

His children’s books about composers reflect a passionate commitment to music education. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

However “Zodiac Suite” is heard, a good performance reflects elements of Williams’s early, swing-era music, as well as her studies of then-contemporary composers like Paul Hindemith. With ‘Zodiac,’ Mary Lou Williams Spanned Classical and Jazz 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Two Latin motets and an English carol by the great Elizabethan composer William Byrd began the second half. Review | The Folger Consort welcomes Christmas with a messe 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

In this program, that theatricality was only to be seen in the movements of the composer and his fellow musicians. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Never mind that the composer’s milestone actually occurred on March 22 — congrats, Steve! — or that the homemade concert, on Broadway.com and YouTube, started more than an hour late because of technical issues. Review | A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The concerto was part of a program of repertory standards by Slavic composers. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z

Other big names who signed the appeal included actresses Helena Bonham-Carter and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, singer Cliff Richard, show business impresario Simon Cowell, and actor Dominic West, star of cult U.S. series The Wire. Jagger, Hawking join big celebrity push to keep Scotland in the UK 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Written when the composer was roughly the same as age as Mr. Dolan, it expresses a boundless intensity that matches the sensibility of a filmmaker who fearlessly embraces extremes. Review: In ‘Tom at the Farm,’ Psychosexual Games Down at the Farm 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

For one thing, composers from outside the field often have a distorted understanding of what opera actually is. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

A dashing, boldly sketched portrait of Fauré, the French composer, on view is just one of the reasons I’m looking forward to seeing “Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What to Do This Weekend 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The second piece on the bill, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major, brought serious attention to the Austrian composer after many years of dismissal by major critics and the Viennese music establishment. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z

“I never regarded myself as a Chinese composer,” Mr. Chou said. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The Seattle contemporary choral group led by composer Eric Banks celebrates its 20th anniversary with two programs voted for by choir and audience members. A&E highlights: Festivals celebrating dance, African-American culture and beer 2013-06-05T21:23:11Z

The piece contains music of mourning, dedicated to friends of the composer who were killed in a car accident. Review: Resonant Bodies Festival Gives Voices Room to Breathe 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

"Mr. Adams was fond of likening a negative to a composer's score and the prints to its performance - each performance differs in subtle ways," the lawsuit said. Ansel Adams trust sues over garage sale negatives 2010-08-24T03:16:00Z

There are also world premieres of two Bach-inspired pieces by young composers. BBC Proms 2010-08-14T05:45:00Z

Yet other important composers of that era were writing music that was more radical. Radical Music: Sometimes Shocking, Sometimes Subtle 2012-09-18T17:43:03Z

“As the composer I actually open the whole piece,” she said. That Obscure, Unattainable Object of Desire: Your Own Art 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

He wasn’t long for the Minimalism of Glass and Steve Reich, two composers a decade older than him. John Adams, an American Master at 75 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

As if being a gifted composer, pianist and conductor were not enough, the young Matthew Aucoin is also a poet. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

First performed in 1843, Wagner's operatic treatment of the legend, which is recognised as his first masterpiece, was really the work in which he first revealed his potential as a composer for the stage. This week's new live music 2012-12-15T00:05:21Z

The program repeats Friday night; next week, Elder returns with composers active around World War I: Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, and Ravel. Review | To start NSO residency, Elder beguiles with words, not tones 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Inspired by the true stories in the documentary "Well Founded Fear," librettist- lyricist Nabel joined with composer Bob Christianson to develop the dramatic show in the Village Theatre's 2009 Village Originals new works program. 'Take Me America' at Village Theatre 2011-09-15T19:26:04Z

“He’s a Black boy in a red hoodie going out into the snow alone,” said Joel Thompson, the composer of the work, which premieres at Houston Grand Opera on Thursday. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

His growing sophistication as a composer was revealed in the progress of his pieces from poignant miniatures to grand designs between 1970 and the 90s. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z

As a solution, Ms. Mazzoli and three other composers — in collaboration with the Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music youth orchestra — began the Luna Composition Lab. To Help Women in Opera, Several Institutions Arise 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Rarely are audiences granted this kind of insight into a composer’s process. Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

He adapted some piano pieces written for children by his namesake, Hungarian composer Béla Bartok, into a track titled "For Children — No. 3 Quasi Adagio, No. 10 Allegro molto — Children's Dance." Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn combine much more than dueling banjos 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The trombonist and composer Jacob Garchik treated his new album, “Assembly,” as a canvas for some impressive formal experiments, and there’s rarely a dull moment. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky’s thickly plotted opera — which centers on a ghost with a knack for winning card games — will appear at the Bolshoi as the theater celebrates the composer’s 175th birthday. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

In the new “Villa,” set to music by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, one such move involves a heel swivel that sends a tiny shudder through the whole body, followed by a sideways head bob. Review: A Dance Heginbotham Deserving of the Hype 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

And in these programs, Mr. Nézet-Séguin is mostly sticking to the canon, including Beethoven, Haydn and Bruckner, with just one short piece by a living composer. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

But if Liszt as pianist, teacher and conductor exists now only as memory, anecdote and influence, Liszt as a composer is with us as never before. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

Best known for his work with Spanish orchestras and opera companies, he is also a composer, in the tradition of his father, Cristóbal Halffter, who is prominent in the field. Music Review: Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid Plays Boulez and Mahler 2014-01-31T21:19:43Z

He also reunited his old band, sometimes singing but more often serving as composer, producer and guiding spirit. Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at 74 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

"This is a community made up of creative people, of artists, musicians, filmmakers, composers," Brougher said. Academy Museum's Kerry Brougher gets to merge interests in art, film 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

And there was the Bernstein who yearned to be thought of before all else as a composer. Symphony's tribute to Leonard Bernstein is a festival high note 2010-06-25T18:35:00Z

If it were my decision, the commission would go to Mr. Akiho, a composer and percussionist whose trademark instrument is the steel pan. NY Phil Biennial Provides Showcase for Emerging Composers 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

A 5,000-square-foot condo owned by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is on the market for a third time with a price tag of $19 million. Lloyd Webber's condo in NYC's Trump Tower for sale 2010-05-22T00:36:00Z

Josefowicz’s particular terrain is new music by blue-chip composers, a particular slice of contemporary classical orthodoxy. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

So perhaps I am not the ideal reader for Lloyd Webber’s memoir, “Unmasked,” the first of what the composer suggests will be two volumes. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

About listening again to Alfred Brendel play Beethoven, he told me: “I love Brendel. I never could understand why he hated Rachmaninoff. Imagine being a piano player who boycotts a composer.” Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The best thing is when a good composer, who understands the stage enough to make sound suggestions, meets an able poet, that true phoenix.' Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

Mr. Taruskin drew attention to traditional Slavic melodies that Stravinsky had embedded within “The Rite of Spring,” and how the composer himself had deliberately obscured the folk roots of his revolutionary ballet. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

When Sondheim died on Nov. 26 at 91, the American stage lost not only a composer and lyricist nonpareil but also its longtime encourager-in-chief. Cherished Words From Theater’s Encourager-in-Chief 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The very familiarity of the artists and composers who return year after year has deepened the audience's comfort zone. Presteigne festival 2010-09-03T21:16:00Z

The piece is part of Project 19, the orchestra’s initiative to commission 19 female composers to honor the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

One of those was Mr. Crumb’s “Star-Child,” which the composer remembers as a logistical nightmare. Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z

Immediately upon entering the show, you’re greeted by a video/sound installation by visual artist, composer and musician Paul Rucker, who explores issues of race, injustice and community. CoCA looks back on 35 years of contemporary art with ‘Legacy’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The other greatest illumination these two weeks about this man hailed as a quintessentially American composer was the performance by that most quintessentially American of ensembles, the military band. Review | Six concerts in search of a composer: D.C. fetes Bernstein centennial 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

SUN The story of composer George Gershwin, 2 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-26T23:24:10Z

In a single 40-minute movement, Mr. MacMillan blends cacophonous fanfares and the exotic clang of temple bowls with whispered homages to the Scottish Renaissance composer Robert Carver. The Proms, BBC’s Classical Music Festival, Is All the More Important as Austerity Looms 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

But this new composer in the franchise manages to craft something fresh, taking us through the adventurous highs and the serious lows of the narrative. ‘Rogue One’ Takeaways: Vader, Droids and a Stunning Planet 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

A short work attributed to the Renaissance Dutch composer Sweelinck was the unusual program opener; another infrequently performed work also proved rewarding. Music Review: Peter Serkin Brings Musical Abstraction to 92nd Street Y 2014-05-12T21:40:29Z

Mr. Kahane is known as a highbrow polymath: an accomplished new-music composer who also plays an array of instruments and writes pop songs of theatrical effect. New Music: ?SuperHeavy,? With Mick Jagger, and ?Where Are the Arms? - Review 2011-09-19T22:39:18Z

Perhaps it’s a matter of waiting for the Broadway babies to carry their enthusiasm into adulthood, where they will become composers, lyricists and choreographers. Cultural Studies: The Glee Generation 2010-06-11T19:20:00Z

This year’s festival, hosted by the Issue Project Room in downtown Brooklyn, opened on Friday evening with a tribute to Pauline Oliveros, a composer whose exposure is modest relative to the breadth of her influence. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z

The celebrated composer and multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell learned his contract was not being renewed — news that was met with an outcry from the experimental music community. Is the Music Over at Mills College? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

He returns to Disney on March 4 for the four composers' penultimate sonatas and in October for their final ones. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But soon afterwards the composers and performers, including the children, were transferred to the death camps and murdered. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z

The composer Huang Ruo has not yet reaped these benefits from the sudden, unexplained cancellation of the Beijing premiere of his first opera, “Dr. Sun Yat-Sen,” but it could happen. Music Review: Huang Ruo?s ?Dr. Sun Yat-Sen? at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2012-01-12T23:44:28Z

Russell seemed all too happy to accept these composers as masters, and then, in his turn, to demonstrate what their mastery had released in him. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

“At the same time, I think I was so lucky to have had a composer who wrote for me since I was 20 until the day he died.” Charlotte Gainsbourg Finds Her Own Voice 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

During their residency at the Kennedy Center, the quartet will be working with Mason Bates, composer in residence. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Of special interest is the New York premiere of “The Ordering of Moses,” a major work by the black American composer Nathaniel Dett that had its premiere at the Cincinnati May Festival in 1937. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z

He was an opera singer, composer and photographer. It’s my mother’s fault I stole her letters 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

By encouraging other composers to use her inbox as a kind of digital confessional booth, Ms. Plexus hoped to elicit a diverse range of material from artists she admired on the contemporary classical scene. Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The sound of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new memoir, “Unmasked,” is the sound of history’s most successful musical theater composer laughing his way to the bank. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber sings a happy tune in his memoir, ‘Unmasked’ 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

“We easily forget that the solemn Adagio,” another great champion of the composer, Alfred Brendel, once wrote in an article about Schubert, “originated in Haydn.” After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

And it gave the composer a second home on Vancouver Island, where he spends several months each year, as well as a new community of creative collaborators from which "Marilyn Forever" has sprung. 'Marilyn Forever' opera reveals composer Gavin Bryars' collaborative spirit 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Taruskin’s estimation, he is nothing less than “the most underrated composer in history.” The Story of ‘the Most Underrated Composer in History’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

For the 21st season of the Bard Music Festival, which started on Friday, Mr. Botstein and his collaborators are focusing on the life and times of the 20th-century Viennese composer Alban Berg. Music Review: Tribute to Composer Alban Berg at Bard Music Festival 2010-08-16T21:54:00Z

But she was particularly praised for her singing of operas by Handel and 19th-century Italian composers. Family: Soprano Joan Sutherland has died, age 83 2010-10-11T17:50:00Z

Like Adam Guettel, who wrote the score of “The Light in the Piazza,” Tesori is one of the rare living composers who Clark believes truly understand the voice, and write for it. How the Star of ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Found Beauty in Her Voice Again 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The program ended with the Dixtuor — a double quintet for winds and strings — by Théodore Dubois, a French composer who flourished around the turn of the 20th century and directed the Paris Conservatoire briefly. Music Review: Haydn, Hartmann and Dubois Near, Not on, Washington Sq. 2010-07-14T22:03:00Z

On Thursday night, when Mr. Harding made his highly anticipated debut with the New York Philharmonic in a program of Mahler and the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, the performances, though fascinating, seemed not quite settled. Music Review: Conductor Makes Philharmonic Debut With Sufi Poetry and Celestial Yearnings 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z

Hewitt is nearing the end of her Bach Odyssey at the Y, a multiyear survey of the composer’s complete keyboard works. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

This collects fees from broadcasters and distributes them to its membership of composers and publishers. BBC music fees row goes to tribunal 2013-09-23T08:59:05Z

Mr. Phillips once said, “I’m determined that no great composer is ever again going to live out his life without composing a major work for tuba.” Harvey Phillips, a Titan of the Tuba, Dies at 80 2010-10-24T04:19:00Z

Cage’s embrace of chance as an aesthetic principle had a profound effect on Paik, as did the composer’s attempts to break down the distinction between conventional music and other sounds. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Given many scene changes and technical demands as a staged opera, "Faust," the composer knew, would work in the mid-19th century only as a hybrid. Seattle Symphony to stage Berlioz's hard-to-categorize 'Faust' 2012-06-14T20:48:09Z

I often talked books with my late friend, the composer Michael Friedman. Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The question “Why write an opera?” was posed to every composer and librettist, who answered it in program notes and sometimes in the video introductions screened before each performance. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z

"I feel," the composer wrote shortly afterwards, "that I am perhaps beginning to emerge from the fogs at last." Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

The Wagner was the Tristan Prelude, played with the rarely heard concert ending provided by the composer himself, which tacks elements of the Liebestod somewhat apologetically on to the main piece. Prom 33: BBC Philharmonic/Mena 2012-08-08T11:55:13Z

The board that administers the Pulitzer Prizes announced on Tuesday that it would expand eligibility for the awards to authors, playwrights and composers who are not U.S. citizens. Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility to Noncitizens 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

The concert concluded on a vivacious note with a dynamic reading of Debussy’s exuberant “Ibéria,” which reflects the fascination of French composers of the period with the Spanish idiom. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-16T19:53:31Z

Janacek will be in a central point because he is arguably the best Czech composer of opera, and one of the best composers of opera of all time. Royal Opera’s Next Leader Keeps Quality in Mind and Home in His Heart 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

But until relatively recently, when classical players and composers began to embrace the instrument’s full patrimony — popular and classical — musicians intent on establishing the guitar’s classical bona fides often showed a prickly defensiveness. Critic?s Notebook: Marathon at 92nd St. Y to Wrap Up Guitar Festival 2012-01-26T23:38:46Z

Any minimal relationship between the two composers ends there. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

When she was refused an audition for the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies, she contacted composer Stephen Sondheim. Polly Bergen, Emmy winner and Sopranos star, dies aged 84 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the quartet is also a homage to Purcell, ending with a “Chacony,” a series of variations over a repeated bass line, that reveals Britten’s affinity with that English Baroque composer. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

Can the young American composer Andrew Norman keep this up? Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

These will be expansions of existing programs in many places, like the Albany Symphony’s effort to foster musical literacy through songwriting, partnering with young composers like Ted Hearne. Orchestras in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo Stay Nimble 2014-04-30T12:32:12Z

I loved the recordings of “Firebird” and “Petrouchka” from the early 1960s, with the composer himself conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The disc is inspired by “Simple Music for Piano,” a collection published in 2009 by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli in which he reprised melodies from his large catalog of music for film and theater. Music: Classical Recordings : GIYA KANCHELI: THEMES FROM THE SONGBOOK 2011-02-20T02:01:59Z

As Ophelia speaks to her beloved, the music becomes more intensely personal, as the composer seemingly enters not only the pitiless and abstract aesthetic of Xenakis but also the complexly ironic tone of late Britten. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Certainly classical composers expected such citations to be recognized. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Or you can splurge on $30 tickets to another critic’s pick: “Preludes,” a musical set in the mind of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, is “sad and stirring and gloriously fun,” Mr. Brantley wrote. ‘Ada/Ava’ and ‘Preludes’ Are Shows to See in a Relatively Empty City 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

But again and again, as he had all evening, Dudamel ushered his composers to the fore and stepped away from the limelight. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

Mendelssohn, like Mozart a prodigy composer, wrote two indisputable masterpieces in his adolescence: the String Octet and Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

As there should be, given their talent, said Doreen Ringer-Ross, an executive in the film music division of Broadcast Music Inc., the performing rights organization which manages the catalogs of many of Hollywood’s top composers. Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s a turning point in which composers use the form to convey a message,” he said. Tobias Kratzer Is Leading Opera’s Next Generation of Directors 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Donor-members could contribute as little as five dollars, with benefits ranging from access to open rehearsals to an invitation to a dinner with the commissioned composers. How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Levitin combines his parallel careers in music and science into this unputdownable examination of what actually happens to us when we experience music as listeners, performers or composers. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z

“ARE you really going to ask me that?” the composer and vocalist Corey Dargel inquired near the end of a sprawling conversation one recent evening, his measured tone briefly betraying impatience and resignation. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

“Concerts often focus on miraculous first works by precocious composers,” says Stern. Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z

And his “Blue Towers” and Diversions for Orchestra are demonstrations of how a composer can write smart, effective and charming works for a pop orchestra. Classical Playlist: Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and More 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

But when the group stopped touring and being one another’s 24/7 pals and prison buddies, and as Lennon, McCartney and Harrison developed their own voices as composers, the strains erupted, the sutures split. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

After the rehearsal, Bridges gathers with her parents and close friends for a dinner party at the Bronx apartment of her friend, the composer Willie Alexander. How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cerrone, 36, a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where he received masters and doctorate degrees, is now a professional composer. The Classical Concert That Changed Their Lives 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

The society's annual Music Awards, which honour musicians, composers, writers and arts organisations, are described by organisers as "the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK". 'Life-changing' musicians honoured 2013-04-24T15:21:08Z

Though Mr. Rolfe Johnson was most closely identified with early-music composers, including Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, his portfolio ranged through Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and on to modernity. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z

In opera, the composer has already done that for you, so it's a different proposition. Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero 2010-07-01T21:01:00Z

The program ended with a stellar performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony, one of the few pieces the intensely self-critical composer felt satisfied with. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z

Williams is the most famous film score composer alive today, with five Oscars and a whopping 44 additional nominations in his pocket—make that 45 after today. The 10 Biggest Oscar Nomination Surprises 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Jazz Tradition and What’s Worth Keeping Ambrose Akinmusire’s opening set at the Jazz Standard on Friday showed some excitement and unease: a young trumpeter and composer still looking for, or maybe still rejecting, a style. Music Review: Ambrose Akinmusire at Jazz Standard 2010-06-27T21:24:00Z

He was a neurotic composer, and you can feel the tension, the turnaround from simple experimental thrills. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

This performance of the composer’s 15th and final string quartet was something to be cherished. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Miller will feature work by composers from around the world in its signature Composer Portraits series, present leading early-music groups and expand its programming for families. Miller Theater Focuses on New, Old and Young Next Season 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

“With Spontini, the chorus is no longer decorative or secondary,” said Patrick Barbier, a scholar of the composer, “but an essential protagonist.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

But when Tár schools a Juilliard class that a conductor’s job is to “sublimate yourself” into the canon of white male composers, the young musicians do not bend to her will. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Even more improbable was the composer who chose to take on the daunting job of turning Angels into arias and recitative. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

Both composers were also represented with characterful works for solo cello, deftly performed by Ms. Jensen. Music Review: A Lutoslawski Tribute Includes ‘Bukoliki’ 2013-12-17T22:09:30Z

Shortly before President Trump’s inauguration, Washington National Opera presented the premiere of “The Dictator’s Wife,” an opera about authoritarianism; the composer, Mohammed Fairouz, spoke about its associations with the Trumps. She’s Putting Her Mark on the Kennedy Center 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The program includes works by the black composers Oswald Russell and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and an arrangement of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Spare Times Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

When a major composer dies, imagine if an orchestra were able to organize, on short notice, a mini festival of his or her scores. Notes Toward Reinventing the American Orchestra 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

Tudor has been taken up by a new generation: Last week the young Southland Ensemble mounted the pianist and composer's electronic installation "Rainforest IV" in Pasadena. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

All this at a time when the world of young, inventive and often populist composers is exploding. As New Composers Flourish, Where Will They Be Heard? 2011-12-09T17:01:37Z

The film’s composers and screenwriter are adapting their work for the stage, while a holiday special is also in the works for a 2017 debut on ABC. 'Frozen' Musical Selects City for World Premiere 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her job, as she saw it, was to embody the intent of composer and lyricist through careful, simultaneous attention to all these things. Barbara Lea, Interpreter of American Popular Songs, Dies 2012-01-02T00:44:30Z

The devoutly catholic composer used a passage from the Book of Revelation, where the angel clothed in clouds and rainbows announces the end of the world. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z

The title of the program was borrowed from the alluring final work performed: “Immortal Bach,” by Mr. Nystedt, a Norwegian composer who died in 2014. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

But if Liszt never lacked champions among master pianists, why is he not considered as important as other Romantic composers, like Schumann and Chopin? Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Of the 12 living composers on the program, at least half a dozen will be attending. Seattle Chamber Players tour Mediterranean in 'Icebreaker' festival 2012-02-15T22:23:04Z

Yet, too often, I’ve found, newcomers to classical music feel they have to take a music survey class before they can “get” certain pieces or composers. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The music and lyrics paid homage to great composers of the past such as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and the Gershwins. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The pieces are Bach's A minor English Suite and Variations for Judith, a new piece by a handful of composers commissioned by Judith Serota. Melvyn Tan turns guinea pig: are musicians like athletes? 2012-07-03T17:01:01Z

It is presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New York nonprofit organization directed by trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis and located in the Time Warner Center towers overlooking Central Park. Seattle-area bands 2nd and 3rd at prestigious New York jazz competition 2011-05-15T03:11:59Z

And I think it has a lot to do with young composers. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z

It's the same for a lot of her fellow writers and composers. At Village Theatre's new musicals fest, hope springs for Broadway 2010-08-14T05:00:00Z

There were bravos and, from the many young people I saw around me, shouts and hoots for Ms. Weilerstein and the composer. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

BERKELEY, Calif. — A few months ago, the composer Jimmy López came to the University of California, Berkeley, to hear firsthand the experiences of young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. After Trump, an Oratorio About ‘Dreamers’ Changes Key 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Shah of Persia and the composer Richard Rodgers were particular friends. Beverly Whitney Kean obituary 2011-08-04T18:03:15Z

Here was a rare chance to follow the composer’s development and immerse yourself in these symphonies, performed by musicians who rightly claim the scores as part of their Russian heritage. Looking Back at ?Anna Nicole,? ?Griselda? and ?Don Giovanni? 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z

The videos put faces with the names of composers, writers and stars. ArtsBeat Blog: A New Video Series From Sony Masterworks 2011-11-14T22:16:36Z

He began staging works by composers Mr. Levine had previously shown little interest in; championing new and sometimes controversial production styles; and launching the Met’s “Live in HD” simulcasts to cinemas. James Levine, a Fractured Partnership and a Met Opera Lawsuit 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

The first “modern” composer, a hundred years after his death, vibrates afresh in every corner of the globe. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Also, our long-term relationships with living composers is calculated. Atlanta's Robert Spano, familiar to 'Ring' fans, conducts Seattle Symphony 2010-04-21T22:58:00Z

Urbane and eloquent ... the composer, conductor and performer George Benjamin. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z

It was his reputation as an avant-garde composer and as a crusader for new music that prompted his unexpected appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic, succeeding Leonard Bernstein. Pierre Boulez, French Composer, Dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The words clash and meld with the sound of a string trio performing the French composer Olivier Messiaen’s 1941 “Quartet for the End of Time.” The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

It’s hardly surprising that the composer of one of the peaks of American piano music, the “Variations on ‘The People United Shall Never Be Defeated,’ ” is himself a formidable pianist. Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The shaken composer dedicated the piece to the fallen president. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Pharoah Sanders, a saxophonist and composer who was celebrated for music that was at once visceral and spiritual, purposeful and ecstatic, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. Pharoah Sanders, Whose Saxophone Was a Force of Nature, Dies at 81 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

He said that the future of the annual Vox showcase of new opera, a major resource for composers and contemporary-music lovers, was up in the air. City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z

“If a composer writes a difficult piece,” he said, “everybody should understand it is difficult.” The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

At the time, Tippett was preoccupied with reviving early English music from Purcell's time and earlier, but was hampered by the lack of a convincing male soloist for the the 17th-century composer's alto parts. Alfred Deller: a voice from the past 2012-05-31T09:52:25Z

But somehow, from an organization whose focus is the music of a single composer, you expect more. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The composer George Benjamin is this year’s artist in residence. Review: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Careens Across the Centuries at Aldeburgh 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The composer Philip Glass once worked as an assistant for the sculptor Richard Serra, after the two befriended each other in Paris in the early 1960s and swapped cultural touchstones. Philip Glass to Perform Inside a Richard Serra Installation 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

She also helped the university acquire the collection of pianist and composer James P. Johnson. Noted Duke Ellington archivist Kuebler dies in NJ 2012-08-17T22:31:04Z

Mozart’s teenage keyboard concertos were pastiches of other composers’ scores. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Jeffrey Kahane Leads the New York Philharmonic 2010-03-26T20:47:00Z

“He’s a wonderful person,” said the pianist and composer Eri Yamamoto, a Parker collaborator who plays an album’s worth of his solo piano compositions on the new set. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

There’s plenty of the new and adventurous on deck this autumn, from a premiere by the Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence to a daring composer/pianist collaboration. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Interactivity, Inside and Out, Creates Informal Feeling Not so very long ago, when contemporary composers had to hustle and scratch for places to present their work, art galleries provided a crucial outlet. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

And when a player complained in the composer’s hearing that the quartets were “not music” at all, he replied: “Oh, they are not for you; they are for a later age.” Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In “Brave,” set in the Scottish highlands, the composer Patrick Doyle brought in the bagpipes, with tangy results. Music Review: ‘Pixar in Concert’ From the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-02T22:18:35Z

So it was the Fort Smith orchestra’s premiere recording of her 1945 Fourth, in D Minor, that made news among fans of this long-snubbed composer. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The composer, who conducted at the hall’s opening night in 1891, is a focus of its 120th anniversary celebrations. The Week Ahead: Oct. 2 ? 8 2011-09-30T17:17:58Z

The festival was founded in Charleston in 1977 by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti as a companion to his festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. 'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto 2013-06-01T14:35:08Z

A composer capable of rousing an orchestral roar like no other, Rouse won't stop there with his new Organ Concerto, having its West Coast premiere. 5 picks: What's on our radar for art, theater, music and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson, swept all the clutter and associations of his grandfather's operas off the stage. Opera's top 10 shockers 2013-05-10T11:46:25Z

In the first season, “Meet the Composer” occasionally suffered from a sentiment of boosterism: the interviewees primarily comprised composers within Sirota’s immediate circle of collaborators. Q2 Music’s Brilliant “Meet the Composer” Podcast 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

One of the supreme singers of her time, she was also a prolific composer, whose music is slowly being salvaged from obscurity; a savvy entrepreneur; a gifted visual artist; and a highly respected voice teacher. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

For “Metamorphosis Titian 2012” she put them together with well-known contemporary composers and artists — an ambitiously Diaghilevian project that is a collaboration with Britain’s National Gallery and part of the cultural Olympiad. Dance Review: ‘Metamorphosis Titian 2012’ at the Royal Ballet 2012-07-16T21:26:23Z

His music will be performed at Gregynog along with the work of other composers who have appeared there such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Holst. Festival marks Britten centenary 2013-06-20T07:49:58Z

The Many Sides of a Violist A common way to map the reach of the violist and composer Eyvind Kang is to enumerate his affiliations. Pop: The Many Sides of a Violist 2013-06-28T19:41:04Z

Less often, I listen to classic Gospel and spirituals – it's not just the brilliance of composers that inspires me, but also the raw guts and strength of voices in performance. Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps 2010-08-25T10:30:00Z

It’s not unreasonable to claim that Purcell and Britten are the two greatest English-born composers, and in this centenary year of Britten’s birth, it’s good to link him to a composer he often championed. Dance Review: Mark Morris Presents Purcell and Britten at Tanglewood 2013-08-01T21:50:31Z

Behold, in Linz, the church where the great composer Anton Bruckner worked as an organist — in the city that Adolf Hitler considered his hometown. Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

A beguiling mismatch in Paris After 26 silent years in thrall to his postmodernist masters, Eötvös was in his 50s when he emerged as a serious composer. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

The Festival of Adventurous Music for Large Ensemble occurs over two nights, hosting music by composers both widely heralded and too rarely heard. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

In sharp liner notes for this album, the composer Carman Moore describes Singleton’s creativity as possessing “that special African-American attitude both of make-do and of derring-do.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Later this month, Ramin Djawadi, the composer for the show who wrote this catchy title track, takes a production of music from "Game of Thrones" on a live performance tour across Canada and the U.S. 'Game of Thrones' music comes to a stage near you 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Seminal soul and funk composer Sly Stone has been awarded $5 million in royalties and damages by a Los Angeles County court. Sly Stone awarded $5 million in back royalties, damages 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Also interesting are the two “apothéoses” by Couperin that Rousset includes on the disk: instrumental tributes to two deceased composers he admired: Lully and Corelli. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The symphony represented the composer’s attempt, however forced, at rehabilitation. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

Some detractors also asserted that Mr. Craft, who was not a trained historian, had let factual errors creep into his biographical writings about the composer. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

To which I say, more power to him; the form needs composers as talented as Mr. LaChiusa, who have the courage to sacrifice commerciality and go their own way. Music Review: Michael John LaChiusa Has His Night at the Allen Room 2014-02-04T21:44:49Z

He emerged in the 1960s as a tenor saxophonist and in-house composer for pace-setting editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet, two of the most celebrated small groups in jazz history. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

This is done by a team, which then turns the stories over to writers and composers. For the Story Pirates, kids’ creativity is a treasure 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Mahler retrospectives have continued into this year, the 100th anniversary of his death as well as the bicentennial of another path-breaking composer, Franz Liszt. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

Classical Daniel J. Wakin He was a respected music theorist, organist and sometime composer for decades. The Week Ahead: Mar. 6 ? 14 2011-03-05T18:13:26Z

“His recordings and performances of Dvorak and Martinu, among other composers, were superb: thoughtful and filled with insight, but also wit and joy,” he added. Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

This watercolor is one of his designs for Mexican composer Carlos Chávez’s symphonic ballet, which tells a pan-American story in which the laborers triumph. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

After the war, he wrote lyrics for several composers until that fateful Brill Building meeting with Bacharach. Legendary Songwriter Hal David Dies in LA at 91 2012-09-01T20:51:56Z

Attend any new-music concert, and you hear works by composers in their 20s and 30s that may be good or bad but are almost always restless and frenetic, full of dramatic contrasts. Review: New York City Opera, a Quiet ‘Sunday Morning’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

I do identify myself with artists and composers, like Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli, who are for decades my personal friends and whose compositions I many times premiered and always championed. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Gidon Kremer on Freedom and Human Rights in Russia 2013-08-20T16:00:52Z

The Irish composer Andrew Hamilton’s pointillist “Love and Goodness” required a lightness of touch that sometimes went beyond the abilities of the players. Music Review: TILT Brass Offers Five Premieres at Concert at Roulette 2013-06-28T21:47:24Z

And there is the soundtrack, supplied by Duncan Bridgeman, a composer responsible for “1 Giant Leap,” a multimedia project in which artists from around the world build on the same pieces of music. A Soundtrack for a Communal Bike Ride 2010-08-19T21:38:00Z

Formed by the composer, violinist and software designer Christopher Tignor, Slow Six was tough to peg from the start. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z

“The composers and improvisers are not the ones producing the sounds of colonialism,” he wrote in a recent essay. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It is the penetratingly spiritual Estonian composer’s portrait of the City of Angels, with emphasis exclusively on heavenly beings. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

The membership stretches across North America, Europe and parts of Asia, encompassing a sizable diaspora; for cultural and political reasons, working as a composer inside Iran is challenging at best, even more so for women. Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

The state increasingly censored and censured modernist music, with composers often facing dire consequences if accused of what it saw as Western decadence. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

He is aided by photos and ephemera, displayed by Mr. Fitzgerald, and oddly graceful percussive scoring from Mr. Quillen, a composer and steel drum performer who also steps forward to offer his own convoluted reminiscences. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Prestigious music institutes such as Darmstadt, in Germany, have rarely invited Black composers to join their international communities, or given Germany-based Black composers such as Robert Owens and Benjamin Patterson their due. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The title piece of her latest show at the gallery, “Arabesque,” explores the intertwined careers and divergent legacies of the husband-and-wife Romantic composers Robert and Clara Schumann. Art in Review: DARA BIRNBAUM: ?Arabesque? 2011-08-11T21:15:27Z

“WTC 9/11,” a string quartet created in 2010 by the composer Steve Reich, falls into the same rough category but varies sharply in its approach and tone. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z

But in concertos by composers as varied as Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, whether for violinist or pianist, the soloists recede a bit too thoroughly into the orchestral textures. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

The composer Benjamin Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, actually had musical scores confiscated during World War II by British customs inspectors, who suspected that they concealed illicit code. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z

It’s a staggeringly difficult suite of 13 pieces lasting more than two and a half hours, into which the composer incorporated his own transcriptions and transformations of bird calls. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Again, it may seem strange to suggest that the composer of “The Phantom of the Opera,” sometimes considered to be one of the most successful pieces of entertainment, is underrated by musical fans. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

So, Dr. Jones designed a sign that listed Black composers throughout history. A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

That’s not exactly the job or role of a composer, but it’s the mark of a great one. The Music from Her Aims Big and Scores 2014-02-28T22:34:06Z

Each screening revolves around a particular composer or composers. 3 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The production by the composer Erling Wold was first presented in 2001 and is being restaged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of the novel, about withdrawal from drug addiction. Summer Stages 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

A sung Mass begins at 5 p.m. with music by the 16th-century sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Rabbi Warshawsky, 29, leads prayers and teaches classes on Judaism and Jewish values at congregations throughout the country and is also a composer of music for worship and communal singing. Adina Allen, Joshua Warshawsky 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

It’s rarely a compliment to describe a composer as “academic”: the word is usually applied to those perceived as being sequestered on campus creating esoteric, dreary works. Review: Yale Composers Showcase Their Works at New Music New Haven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Her adoptive father, the powerful poet Giulio Strozzi, nourished her career as a singer, composer, thinker and producer — a career that was wildly successful by any standard. She Quickened the Pulse of 17th-Century Music 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Also in 2011, at the Kitchen, the composer and media artist Fast Forward directed a new staging of “That Morning Thing,” retaining the 1967 work’s quirk and shock. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Ashley’s Work Lives On at the Whitney Biennial 2014-04-14T21:19:51Z

Two major film and television composers were included. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

There are also lists for composers, including the usual suspects — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven — as well as contemporary artists like Kaija Saariaho and Steve Reich. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

What do you gain by listening to this composer play his music — either this piece, or past ones? The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

He is committed, he said, to making sure that “underrepresented composers are part of our future.” Washington Chorus is in the market for another music director 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

Robert Ashley, an American composer who helped wrestle opera into the 20th century, and in so doing broadened the genre in strange, unexpected ways, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z

In those last two incarnations, both of which I caught, the show had already shaped up as a variation on musicals made up of the existing hits of a rock or pop composer. Review | Listen up, Bob Dylan fans: You’ll want to journey to Broadway’s ‘North Country’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

America’s orchestras are, from coast to coast, Adams-centric, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony leading the cheering section for an essential West Coast composer. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

This rewarding program was the second installment in the society’s series of complete cycles of string quartets by five composers. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

But Choo is particularly excited about “Postcards From Singapore,” three short pieces by composers from the eponymous city-state, Choo’s native land. An action movie with a twist 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Altogether, according to PaidContent.org, royalties for songwriters and composers amount to 4% of Pandora's revenue. Opening up the politics of Pandora 2011-03-14T16:14:51Z

Now Mr. Geller, who trained as a composer, speaks like an investment banker. The American Composers Orchestra Looks Ahead 2012-05-25T18:36:30Z

Would the newly unveiled Connect, which allows artists to interact directly with fans, better provide War on Drugs with "tools to grow, nurture and sustain careers," as Oscar-winning film composer Trent Reznor promised Monday? Apple Music may be overselling its usefulness 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

How did you get started as a composer? After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin is a gifted Mozart conductor, and his treatment of the finale — witty and nimble — could have been the overture to one of that composer’s operas. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The show's composer, Mark Isham, said the series presented a unique challenge in terms of conveying emotion through music. Envelope Screening: Less is more with music for 'American Crime' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Robert Schumann speculated in print that Liszt’s flaws as a composer would be obvious even in his most mature works. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

“He trusts himself and he pushes himself. That’s a very good combination,” said the composer Philip Glass, a longtime friend and occasional collaborator. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

In 1986, his recording of Bernstein’s “West Side Story” score, conducted by the composer and featuring Kiri Te Kanawa as Maria, won the award for best cast show album. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Until about three years ago, the emphasis of Wang’s concerto repertoire was on the Russian composers — Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Say what you will about Mr. Lloyd Webber, no composer since Puccini has managed to write tunes that adhere so insistently to the memory. Theater Review: ?Evita,? Starring Elena Roger, at the Marquis Theater 2012-04-06T02:00:09Z

He secured the lottery funding and together with composer Betty Roe, who wrote the score, quietly worked away on the piece, only announcing that it was happening in the new year. Take your seats for Swindon: the Opera 2012-07-06T18:17:28Z

Melodies are too often of that aimless, blandly zigzag variety favored by composers who don’t want to sound harshly atonal or tunefully accessible. Music Review: ‘Oscar,’ at Santa Fe Opera, With David Daniels, Countertenor 2013-08-01T21:53:47Z

It is hard to think of a composer better suited to a city than Mr. Adams, with his sweeping yet delicate evocations of the natural world, will be to the outdoors-obsessed Seattle. Critic?s Notebook: Ludovic Morlot Stands Out at the Seattle Symphony 2012-01-28T00:08:01Z

Rossini’s overture is the work of a composer with a sly poker face. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Daniel Mertzlufft, 27, a composer, orchestrator and arranger in New York, used a computer program to create his own song for a Disney-style finale scene he imagined. TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ Musical to Be Presented as Benefit Performance 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

But it’s most exciting in the challenge it sets other composers to turn their treble clefs to podcasting. This Podcast Is a Love Story, for Your Ears Only 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Martin first made a name for himself as an audacious comic, but he’s become something of Renaissance man, and here he gets to showcase the strides he’s taken as a composer of bluegrass. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

Smith is the movie’s ostensible subject, along with Thomas A. Dorsey, a gospel founding father and composer of a major portion of its songbook. ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ Will Make You Want to Sing Out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“I’m a composer who conducts,” Mr. Benjamin told the audience. Review: George Benjamin, at Mostly Mozart, Shows Depth as a Conductor 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

“I believe in notes, and I believe in allowing myself to be magnetized by the way someone makes notes — another performer, a singer or a composer — the way that person assembles notes,” Mr. Harrington said. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z

At 81, Stephen Sondheim is the dean of Broadway composers, and still full of vim and vinegar. 'Downton Abbey' leads critics' picks 2012-01-08T04:05:44Z

Warwick: I have complete respect for composers who write the melody and want to hear the melody. Dionne Warwick on her new documentary and enduring career: "I am and will always be relevant" 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

This adventurous saxophonist and composer presents his debut recital for the organization Young Concert Artists, which named him the winner of its prestigious international auditions competition in 2019. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in March 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Intent on a major international celebration, he and Fayçal Karoui, City Ballet’s music director, set about dreaming up happy marriages between composers and choreographers. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

“The issue is also about how many female writers there are, female directors, even female soundtrack composers,” Page adds. Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Wales is the spiritual home of the composer Adrian Williams, and the contemplative, questioning vein that its landscape has permitted him to articulate was reflected in his Cello Concerto, premiered here by Raphael Wallfisch. Bangor New Music festival | Classical review 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z

Carnegie is already a potent force on the classical music scene, staging festivals, anointing composers and musicians in residence and showcasing soloists, chamber groups and orchestras in the concerts that it presents. With More Than Concerts, Carnegie Widens Its Playing Field 2011-01-19T17:27:46Z

Obviously, no small credit was due to the composer, from whose flamboyant imagination such glories sprang. Music Review: Worth a Reprise at Age 401 2011-01-04T01:02:28Z

Running deliberately against composers’ intentions, again and again over the decades, Mr. Taylor has repeatedly run the risk of being called unmusical. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

Björk is an unusually complete artist — a visionary musician, singer, composer, actress, dancer, poet and perhaps, most impressively, an omnivorous creator of fantastically rich musical arrangements. Björk, a One-of-a-Kind Artist, Proves Elusive at MoMA 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

I think Byrd and Tallis knew people who were arrested, and I think there were some composers for one reason or another during this time arrested. How William Byrd Influences Music, 400 Years After His Death 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

He also helped the movie's composer, Christophe Beck, with cues, improvisations and other aspects of the soundtrack. 'The Peanuts Movie': Jazz pianist David Benoit provides musical rhythm 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

The American artist Mr. Close has forged a number of accidental celebrity portraits in his lifetime — like the 1969 image “Phil,” which shows the then-little-known composer Philip Glass gazing lazily at the viewer. What's On This Week Around the World 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The goal was to determine a list of the top 10 composers in history. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The offerings extend to new artworks and performances only tangentially related to the composer but inspired by his example. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The outlier was the Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor by Giovanni Bottesini, a 19th century Italian composer who is remembered, when remembered at all, as the Paganini of the bass. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

We depend on the composers and performers we admire to keep enriching us. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Or the Modernist influence of the composer Pierre Boulez? Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Morris said the program helped him get work with famous composers like Hans Zimmer. 'Binge-watching' viewership casts bigger spotlight on TV composers 2013-09-14T13:00:38Z

She was speaking in a phone interview with the composer Michael Abels, who joined separately by phone from the United States. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, the composer and playwright of "Spring Awakening," debuted a musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Nightingale," in which the characters are Chinese. 'Trek' star's own history inspires new musical 2012-09-13T14:27:09Z

Eight composers were selected, and paired with older mentors whose music has been performed by MATA. New-Music Festival to Focus on Young Composers 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

At 84, the musician and composer Terry Riley looks every bit the part of a synthesizer wizard. Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Carrington’s new album, “Waiting Game,” pulls together the various aspects of her identity: as organizer, educator, social justice advocate, drummer, composer and bandleader. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

As a composer, Mr. Toussaint packed that avuncular warmth and street wisdom into tight moral dramas and testimonies of love. An Allen Toussaint Tribute by New Orleans’s Modern-Day All-Stars 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The composer has just got back from Turkey, where the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra has been rehearsing the concerto. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

In addition to conducting, Tyzik is a cornet player, a prolific composer and a record producer. Jeff Tyzik took only 'a nanosecond' to accept Seattle Symphony post 2012-10-10T02:38:04Z

“I’m a composer too — and I was surprised that he wanted such a thing,” Bresnick said. Rzewski for Lovers? A Pianist Mines a Prickly Modernist’s Gentler Side 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

While we may reject a mechanistic link between Wagner and Hitlerism, there is no denying the composer was a virulent anti-semite. A to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews 2013-06-13T15:31:05Z

What I do is champion, demystify and describe the composers, works and artists I admire, and, as appropriate, puncture inflated reputations. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images Neruda Songs contains some of the most unabashedly lyrical music that any American composer has produced since Gershwin. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z

Mr. Lubimov — who in the 1960s gave the Soviet premieres of a number of daring Western works — will use his $50,000 award to commission new pieces from five composers. Russian Pianist Receives First Cage Cunningham Fellowship 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The program also includes chamber works by three Hungarian composers who perished under Nazi hands. A new opera, commissioned by a Seattle group, brings to life the works of a Jewish Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Colin Davis's recuperation from illness undoubtedly reset some of the dials for this programme of Elgar and Mozart, two composers in whose music the veteran British conductor particularly excels. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z

THE kaleidoscopically majestic and mystical works of the French composer Olivier Messiaen reveal many influences: Debussy, Stravinsky, Balinese music, plainchant. CD Review: OLIVIER MESSIAEN: ?Visions de l?Amen? 2010-07-16T15:02:00Z

He gave blazing performances of Copland’s flinty Piano Sonata and two fiendish works by the maverick composer Frederic Rzewski that incorporate labor movement songs and anthems. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

But the mezzo-soprano vocalist and composer Alicia Hall Moran didn’t conceive of “The Motown Project” 12 years ago to push some argument about common ground. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Ono sang Cage's "Aria," and she also performed Cage's "Water Walk" while lying on piano strings as the composer played. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Green, the Tony-nominated lyricist and composer, says pop song writers who come to Broadway quickly find it's not the best place to dabble since it takes years for a musical to get up and running. Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals 2013-05-22T12:40:09Z

On Saturday, the New York Philharmonic decamps to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an installment of its Contact! new-music series dedicated to works by Nordic composers. Percussion To the Extreme 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

He embodied an ideal of the complete musician in his roles as composer, virtuoso violinist and pianist, conductor, teacher and generous mentor to younger artists. Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

“It had texture,” the composer George Lewis said recently, recalling the very loud yet very subtle electronic music of Maryanne Amacher. Reviving the Ghostly Sounds of Maryanne Amacher 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

She returned to her career, in earnest, as the composer of the Tony-nominated score for “The Secret Garden” in 1991 and, now, as the composer of the musical “Doctor Zhivago,” which opened recently on Broadway. Carly and Lucy Simon on Music, Fame, Sibling Rivalry and, Yes, James Taylor 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The score, by the electronic musician and composer David Holmes, had a liturgical feel as choral music mingled with voice-overs that capture the sound of chaotic street life. Review: Dancing That Unfolds Like a Prayer 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Often a syllable will be rhythmically repeated on the same pitch, a technique similar to what composers like Monteverdi sometimes did. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The venturesome Seattle Modern Orchestra, conducted by Julia Tai, opens its 2011-12 season with "Music on Words," exploring how composers incorporate text in their work. 3 orchestras in play this weekend 2011-10-26T21:12:03Z

He ended up using four pieces by the composer. ‘Stanley Kubrick’s Sound Odyssey’ takes audience on an adventure through the auteur’s classical selections 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Be generous, an aging composer in Paolo Sorrentino's new movie, "Youth," asks of a young actor when inquiring about his background. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Phil program featured two favorite Bowl composers, with pairs of works by Beethoven and Ravel. But there was a quirk. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

But Deborah Borda, the New York Philharmonic’s president and chief executive officer — and the former leader in Los Angeles — said it would present the work of important artists and composers in meaningful ways. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Like many composers of his time, Chausson labored under the anxious influence — what he called the “ardent and despotic inspiration” — of Wagner. A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Big Star last played in the UK in 2008 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, where Chilton dedicated songs to Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams, then demanded his musicians play material by the composers. Alex Chilton obituary 2010-03-18T16:24:00Z

More than a hundred people were forced to quarantine in March of last year after coming into contact with the Australian composer Brett Dean, who tested positive for the virus after performing in Taiwan. Taiwan Was a Covid Haven for Performers. Then Cases Flared. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lindley, who studied with the highly conceptual composer James Tenney, seems taken by the idea of music as research and experiment; from track to track he plays relentlessly with the textures of his backgrounds. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z

On the festival's second Sunday, "A Day for Pierre Boulez," it celebrated, as foreign festivals this summer are doing, the French composer's 90th birthday. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Athens is like a volcano,” said Kostis Maraveyas, 37, a pop star and composer who merges traditional Greek music with other Mediterranean sounds. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z

“The Artist” swept, wining seven awards, including best picture, director, screenplay, composer, costumes and best actor for Jean Dujardin. The Carpetbagger: It's 'Artist' Night at the Baftas 2012-02-13T13:30:37Z

The central Piacevole movement, beloved of the composer's wife Alice and played at her funeral, remained the lilting heart of the work, yet Matthews captured faithfully the palpable tensions of the Allegro finale. Presteigne festival 2010-09-03T21:16:00Z

Miller and Heggie first met in 2006 when she was searching for a composer to write about the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany. ‘Universal resonance’ of Holocaust stories inspires composer Jake Heggie 2013-05-08T23:49:14Z

So it is with Sir Andras Schiff’s “The Last Sonatas,” a three-part exploration of the three final sonatas written by the four quintessential composers of the Classical era: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Pianist Schiff rises to challenge of weighty ‘Last Sonatas’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Then there was the 1961 opera “The Crucible,” which the composer Robert Ward based faithfully on Arthur Miller’s play. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

There is no program to the suite, but the alchemical title, the composer noted, was meant to suggest "secret remedy." Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

An even greater highlight, and far more formidable, was “Sequoia,” the first piece that Joan Tower, now a doyenne of American composers, wrote for orchestra in 1981. Perspective | Building diversity into the mandate: How NOI trains for 21st-century orchestras 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Sondheim’s 1965 lyric collaboration with composer Richard Rodgers — “Do I Hear a Waltz?” — also turned out to be problematic. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Stan Tracey, a pianist and composer who was one of the most highly regarded jazz musicians in Britain and a mentor to numerous younger players, died on Friday. Stan Tracey, Who Helped Pluck British Jazz From American Shadow, Dies at 86 2013-12-10T04:13:07Z

The composer, a specialist in film scores, becomes increasingly obsessed with the dead woman’s story — so it’s time to cue up the soundtracks for unsettling movie classics like “Laura” and “Rebecca.” Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z

This year, in a continuing trend for cross-cultural exchange between Wales and the Baltic states, the commitment to contemporary music embraces Lithuanian composers, though Welsh composers don't figure as prominently as they might. Presteigne festival ? review 2011-08-29T17:10:00Z

It's scored for the composer's familiar lineup of paired winds, vibes, pianos and string quintet. This week's new live music 2013-03-02T06:00:13Z

And it was fascinating to hear Schumann through the ears of these perceptive, stylistically varied contemporary composers. Review: David Kaplan Riffs on Schumann’s Spirit 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

I do find that in all the cases where there is a discrepancy, what the composer wrote is more suitable and fitting to the musical content, to the general poetry of the piece. Listen to Tchaikovsky, Stripped Down to His Intentions 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

Pintscher, who lives in New York City, rose to prominence as a composer, writing a range of music, for orchestra and chamber ensembles, as well as solo pieces for piano and voice. Matthias Pintscher, Evocative Composer, to Lead Kansas City Symphony 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

The music emerges from a place in your gut that is completely your idea of how to serve the composer and the poet so there is no hiding place. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

“I can’t just be a composer,” he said, adding, “I need to do something else as well.” Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z

The actual story is about a composer living in a house he’s sure is haunted. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

On the recording you even include a track explicitly illustrating how Beethoven shared a style with his fellow composers. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Treasured by her large family, she is survived by her brother, the composer Joseph Horovitz, and her sister, the art publisher Elly Miller. Hannah Horovitz obituary 2010-05-05T18:04:00Z

She met the composer Pauline Oliveros, who would become a mentor and was known for a performance practice she called “deep listening.” A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

A Bard concert on Aug. 14 will reconstruct these epic programs, bringing together composers from Palestrina and Monteverdi to Stravinsky and Hindemith. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

In 2018, when the composer and pianist George Walker died at 96, there were plenty of accomplishments to memorialize, including his Pulitzer Prize — the first awarded to a Black composer. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Of all the great composers, Monteverdi is perhaps the most elusive. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-28T21:00:00Z

The concert concluded with a moody rendition of Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony, known as the “Scottish” because the composer sketched some of its themes while on a walking tour of Scotland. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

All this remains true even as Mr. Shorter steps up his output as a composer. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

You want to call me a drone composer? Drone Music, Stretched and Sliced 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

Bach befits Christmas better than any other composer, although he isn’t usually the first to be called upon. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

To receive immediate updates and new posts by composers, subscribe to The Score’s RSS feed. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

Henry Cowell, who was probably the most prominent voice of American composers in his many articles and interviews in European and Soviet newspapers, always argued that such a version of Americanness was rubbish. Chinese Composers With an Ear to the World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

He does not neatly fit the definition of a British noble or a popular composer, and no one is more aware of this than he is. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

On a warm summer evening in a church on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle composer and choral director Eric Banks leads his ensemble, the Esoterics, through a rehearsal of a work by Swedish composer Thomas Jennefelt. Multilingual, multicultural ? the Esoterics do some globe-hopping with their choral sound 2010-08-05T21:57:00Z

A prodigiously talented musician, also a pianist and composer, Mr. Thomas, 75, was born in Los Angeles to a family with a rich heritage in the American Yiddish theater. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas ended with a novelty, “A Concord Symphony,” the composer Henry Brant’s 1994 orchestral arrangement of Ives’s “Concord” Piano Sonata. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

Lately, the composer John Luther Adams has been thinking about art — and artists — in times of crisis. Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

As her time as a composer faded into the past, she referred to her early music as “useless.” She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

But composers who channel their inner E. E. Cummings and break with traditional capitalization say they do so advisedly — for reasons musical, poetic, political and idiosyncratic. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rautavaara once told the Associated Press he was lucky to be a musician in Finland, which gives generous grants to composers. Einojuhani Rautavaara, acclaimed Finnish composer, dies at 87 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The conductor and scholar Leon Botstein investigates this question in a fascinating program of rarely performed works by composers swept up in nationalist movements. Composers Struck by Homeland Fever 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

The version of "Baby Got Back" heard in the video was orchestrated by composer Gabriel Prokofiev, who is the grandson of the renowned Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Seattle Symphony teams with Sir Mix-A-Lot on 'Baby Got Back' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

As a composer he extended that philosophy to his own music. Music Review: Unplugging the Hendrix Experience 2011-03-03T21:18:08Z

The chief classical music critic Anthony Tommasini described a fantasy festival of overlooked works by a group of composers who sought to change the way the world saw American composers. Readers Comment on the Imagine This Series 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

He will be succeeded by Malcolm Parson, a rising young cellist and composer who is currently a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Turtle Island Quartet Finds New Cellist in Carolina Chocolate Drops 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Instead there were two waltz extravaganzas by the French composer Maurice Ravel and a suite from the ­waltz-permeated opera “Der Rosenkavalier” by the Bavarian composer Richard Strauss, all composed in the early 20th century. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

The papers were long in the possession of Dolphy’s close friends the composer Hale Smith, who died in 2009, and his wife, Juanita, who later gave them to the flutist and composer James Newton. A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Jack Black, Downton Abbey, and The Phantom of the Opera don’t necessarily go together, but that changes with the arrival of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical passion project on Broadway. Andrew Lloyd Webber Will Pen for 'School of Rock—The Musical' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Surprisingly for the evening concert of "Benjamin Day", that was the only work by the composer on the programme. BCMG/Benjamin – review 2013-04-08T16:18:04Z

For all Boulez's talk about living in the moment, he was also a composer who expected his audience to come well prepared for that moment. Ojai Music Festival celebrates icon Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

At its strongest, the composer’s instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism is broken up intriguingly with jagged, fragmented melodic phrases. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z

Was it ever submitted for the competition advertised in a yellowed newspaper clipping, stored in the same box of scores, that invited composers of “Bohemian” descent to submit works in this genre? A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

He will also, however, speak about Bach as a composer and organist between segments throughout the day. A Bach Organ Marathon Set for St. Peter's in Manhattan 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

With “Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar,” the composer M. Lamar offers a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days. M. Lamar: ‘Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The trust will determine what happens to the intellectual property of the celebrated lyricist and composer, who died in November. Stephen Sondheim Leaves Rights to His Works to a Trust 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

The dialogue between past and present is productive and fertile terrain in the music landscape, and plenty of people mine it; composers have been tackling Bach-like cello suites for years. Review | Bach Unwound: Cellist offers another new look at solo suites 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

In 1946, Mr. Alexander published a music textbook, “First Arrangement,” and he mentored many other composers and arrangers throughout his life. Van Alexander, songwriter and prolific TV music arranger, dies at 100 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ray often sang and played bass with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, including in its 1971 production of “Mary Lou’s Mass,” by Ms. Williams, the pianist and composer. Carline Ray, an Enduring Pioneer Woman of Jazz, Dies at 88 2013-07-28T01:59:59Z

It is a real joy to have repertoire within, or nearly within my technical skills, by my favourite composers. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

Last April he fired a broadside at Beethoven, writing that it would be academically irresponsible to call him more than an “above average” composer. Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

During every teeming, discombobulating moment of “Split,” you sense a composer in control. Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The collection includes works from non-Black composers — Gershwin and Dvorak among them — which honor the still-young roots of a new American tradition. Perspective | With ‘Roots,’ violinist Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the program note the composer cited as an inspiration the act of listening to two heartbeats “beating in counterpoint,” during pregnancy. Review: The Bloom Is Still on Claire Chase’s Monumental Project 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The composer was at the concert on Thursday night, and she must have been pleased with both the performance and the enthusiastic response. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z

The program, called “Young Americans,” was part of the New York Philharmonic’s Contact! new-music series and focused on composers under 40. Review: Contact! Presents ‘Young Americans,’ a New York Philharmonic Showcase for Emerging Composers 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Mr. Haimovitz requested overtures in classically operatic fashion, and each of six composers took the commission in a different direction. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Proudfoot co-directed “A Concerto is a Conversation” with Horace Bowers’ grandson Kris Bowers, an accomplished composer and pianist whose Hollywood credits include “When They See Us,” “Green Book,” “Bridgerton” and the upcoming “Space Jam” sequel. 2 documentaries up for Oscars tell stories of nonagenarians 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Epiphany’s music director, Jeremy Filsell, accompanied with assurance on the pipe and chamber organs and contributed two lively solo numbers by Spanish composers. Church of the Epiphany’s Tuesday concert series closes with Magnificat 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

And on “Horizons,” as played by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the handoffs between strutting flutes and stark strings also serve notice regarding this composer’s winning unpredictability. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

James says she loves every minute of being in "The Book of Mormon," created by "South Park" masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone, in collaboration with "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez. Star rising: Nikki James of 'The Book of Mormon' 2011-05-17T18:43:08Z

Indeed, he is in no small part responsible for Glass’s evolution, over the second half of his career, as a composer of symphonic music and operas. At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Of special beauty was Christopher Cerrone's "Hoyt-Schermerhorn," a brilliantly solemn intoning of pianistic bells by the composer of the opera "Invisible Cities," evoking a preternaturally transformed Brooklyn subway stop. Putting art to music, with wondrous results 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

First of all, he is one of my favorite composers. After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Or maybe to understand the song is to understand its composers. ‘Song Exploder’ Reveals the Eureka Moments Behind the Hits 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

Written when its composer was just 24, his “Messiah” still three decades in the future, “Agrippina” shows Handel the precocious master. Review: The Met Opera Is Handel’s House in ‘Agrippina’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The composer was surprised when the athlete contacted him. Kobe Bryant Could Add an Oscar to His Record of Wins 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Newbould is looking at slightly fewer concerts and is also encouraging composers to think on a smaller scale when creating new works. Public sector cuts: Music for the community put at risk 2011-03-25T09:30:00Z

Yet the legendary composer almost didn’t do the project, which would turn out to be his last. Robert De Niro: 'Every day for 40 years someone has said: You talkin' to me?' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The composer, who is both percussionist and engineer, matched color frequencies with their sonic equivalents. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Both signed up for a two-week musical theatre workshop that paired up composers and writers with actors to create songs, with the trios rotated for variation. How we stay together: 'You don’t have to make the other person be just like you' 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

Recorded in New York City in December and February, it’s a centuries-spanning selection of composers — all of whom are tangled up in the idea of the title. Perspective | With ‘Roots,’ violinist Randall Goosby makes a first impression with lasting impact 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The event, presented by Young Concert Artists, included three works by young men striving for effect beyond their years, as well as two pieces by composers in their twilight, recalling youthful pleasures. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-03-13T21:27:35Z

As a composer, he became involved in electronic music in the 1950s, when the genre was in its infancy and the tape recorder was still its primary instrument. Ilhan Mimaroglu, Composer and Producer, Is Dead at 86 2012-07-18T23:23:40Z

Mr. Kurtag was one of the first of his generation of Hungarian composers to rediscover the instrument. Music Review: Astringent Modernist Meets Instrument of Old 2011-03-08T21:21:07Z

Tony Award winner Sondheim is considered by many to be the greatest Broadway composer/lyricist of his time. U.S. theater stars sing "Happy Birthday" to Sondheim 2010-03-12T19:20:00Z

Exhibition rooms downstairs from and next door to the Hendrix apartment will continue to focus on the composer. Handel Museum Opens a Hendrix Half 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Lester is an unsuccessful composer of musicals in the grip of a sort of writer’s block: He can’t seem to come up with a decent love song. Review: In ‘The Man in the Ceiling,’ Jules Feiffer Adapts Himself 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Handel was for Beethoven the greatest of all composers, and music’s finest dramatist. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

There were, unfortunately, no female composers other than Ms. Monk represented in the orchestra’s concerts. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z

The composer once more calls for a large orchestra, as well as adult chorus, children's chorus and eight soloists – one reason it for its relatively infrequent stagings. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

And she was one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century, shaping a roster of composers including Aaron Copland, Quincy Jones, Astor Piazzolla and Virgil Thomson. Summer at Bard: Nadia Boulanger, Music’s ‘One-Woman Graduate School’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

One of the boldest thinkers and most delightful composers in this vein is Hazama, who studied Western classical music in Japan before making the jump to jazz. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Titled Call and Response, the annual program links old and new music by commissioning composers to create pieces inspired by masterworks from the quartet repertory. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z

From 1940 to 1954, he brought feisty opinions and lucid, colloquial prose to The New York Herald Tribune, where he championed living composers, especially Americans. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Given his operatic form so far, this composer's ideas grow larger and more intriguing with each endeavour. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z

Hamilton was the last "edgy" musical to open from an "up and coming" composer to become a new classic/juggernaut. The Problem With Broadway Revivals: They Revive Gender Stereotypes, Too 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

This virtuoso vocalist, composer and unofficial musical anthropologist debuted “Ogresse” — the darkly humorous, fantastical suite she wrote with the composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue — one year ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

“The Dance of the Seven Veils,” a caricatured television drama from 1970, emphasized the connections of the composer Richard Strauss to the Third Reich. Ken Russell, Controversial Director, Dies at 84 2011-11-28T11:22:23Z

Mr. Zorn, the most New York of composers, has likewise remained the same by always changing. To Get to City Opera, Mr. Downtown Practiced Eclecticism 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z

But after Tertis attended the 1929 premiere, with Walton conducting and the composer and violist Paul Hindemith as soloist, he decided that he liked the work after all, and he played it many times. Music Review: Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

A producer and composer who works under the name of Count previewed a documentary, "Unsound," that portrayed the frustrations of five groups or artists struggling with the new rules of the music economy. Future of Music Summit 2013: Patience and revolution 2013-10-29T05:24:00Z

These scintillating studies in orchestral color are based on piano miniatures the composer wrote in 1945, when the State Opera lay in ruins in the Soviet-occupied sector of the city. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The pieces were mostly transcriptions by one composer of another, which is a special kind of remembrance. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

In 2016, they went to the Electric Lady studio in Manhattan to continue recording with help from others, including the Canadian composer Owen Pallett, who wrote string arrangements for several songs. Charlotte Gainsbourg Finds Her Own Voice 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bullock, who first gained attention as a student at the Juilliard School in operas by Janacek and Massenet, has in recent years become a composers’ muse. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

I knew of Schütz’s historical importance; born in 1585, exactly 100 years before Bach, he is considered the greatest German composer of the 17th century. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

On An Overgrown Path What's wrong with Radio 3, the secret life of an Arab record label and a hot new Latvian composer. Internet picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

Then it was announced that in honor of the composer’s 200th, in 1970, he would play all 32 in a series of programs at Carnegie Hall. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Interest in Carter and his music surged as he aged, bringing a kind of mainstream attention few living composers ever receive. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

Though he can rattle off the names of more than a half dozen Irish men and women composers of international stature, he says little has changed. Irish composer Raymond Deane talks Achill, Alma and ABBA too 2013-02-14T14:01:41Z

If you want to stump friends with a guessing game, play the beguiling, slightly strange “Glade of Tuoni” from this recording and ask them to identify the composer. Classical Playlist: Sibelius, Dvorak and Zorn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

But a symphony can have three to six movements, depending on what the composer thinks appropriate. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

“If you hear there’s a Native composer, a lot of assumptions happen,” Chacon said, recounting the times that even fans have said they hear the desert in his music. Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

June 18th: For much of the summer, I took refuge in the spare, quiet spaces of the Wandelweiser group of composers. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Bernstein so desperately wanted to be taken seriously by the musical world as a composer of symphonies, not of songs. Marin Alsop and Michael Tilson Thomas on why Leonard Bernstein and his music live on

More often, famous composers, artists, authors and literary celebrities are photographed in such a way that if you were to label the portfolio containing them, it might just be “Men in Suits.” A photographer squanders his talent in fashion and magazines 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

You were less aware than usual of the composer’s abrupt shifts — of style, dynamics, tempo — not because those shifts weren’t present but because they occurred so seamlessly. Music Review: A Conquering Climax to a Tribute to Mahler 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

Recycling old pieces for new purposes is a perfectly professional activity practiced by composers from Bach to Boulez. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z

And here, as the Prophet intones his plans to his wives, Mr. Muhly’s full capabilities as a composer come through. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z

This storied band’s annual Carnegie Hall residency is devoted to the composer, with the Italian conductor Daniele Gatti at the helm. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

George Benjamin’s opera “Written on Skin” brought soprano and composer together. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Wynton Marsalis, the composer and trumpeter who is the organization’s managing and artistic director, will be among the artists celebrating Shorter, who died this month, on March 8 and 9 of next year. Next Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Will Celebrate Wayne Shorter 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Wolfe, a member of the composers’ triumvirate Bang on a Can, writes intensely and thoughtfully. Two years after Pulitzer, a cool coal oratorio comes to Washington 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Each composer who used prerecorded cello and electronic sound design, sometimes with on-the-spot manipulations, did so to very different aesthetic ends. Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

And within that age bracket are new composers, like Brendan Wells, seeking to make contemporary music for those houseplants. A new generation of “plant music” blossoms amidst the Millennial-fueled houseplant boom 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Some have replaced the piece with works by Americans, including the film composer John Williams, and standards like Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and “America the Beautiful.” Amid Ukraine War, Orchestras Rethink ‘1812 Overture,’ a July 4 Rite 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

In sheer frequency, excerpts from “West Side Story” are a runner-up to Tchaikovsky, a reminder that it might be time for the orchestra to reinvigorate its summer programming with music by living composers. Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

One of the composers, Scott Wollschleger, wrote to me with a series of questions about my father. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

For the Austrian composer, the rustic ring of the cowbell took on profound significance in his symphonies, representing cosmic solitude in the face of eternity. Reducing Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to a piano recital 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

This 40th anniversary is also a time for new work, culminating in a collaboration with Mr. Fagan’s close friend the composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next September. Garth Fagan Finds Inspiration in Nelson Mandela 2011-10-02T22:27:42Z

His three-night engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, which started on Thursday, concentrated on the nominally classical, notated part of Mr. Iyer’s work as a composer. Vijay Iyer Performs at BAM Harvey Theater 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

In his mid-30s, he was the oldest composer on the program, although in our youth culture he ranks as an emerging composer. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

It also serves as an important platform for female composers such as Reid, he said. L.A. Opera announces 2018-19 season with 'Satyagraha,' 'Titus' and Off Grand world premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the last piece, Kate Moore's "Bloodmoon October," which was written for the concert, the Australian composer turned to the phenomenon of a red moon and produced a scintillating study in vibrating, rapidly repeated chords. Aron Kallay experiments, triumphs in Piano Spheres' 'Nothing Is Real' 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

But on the whole, the lack of the composer’s voice in our discourse is near deafening. The Score: The Composer?s Other Voice 2011-05-11T01:57:08Z

But one of Hollywood’s great populist composers has a lesser-known side that qualifies as moody, edgy and sometimes even eccentric. John Williams: Five underrated scores by the AFI-honored composer 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

It's a nice idea: it emphasises continuities in sensibility, sometimes overlooked, between classical and Romantic composers. Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin – review 2012-11-20T17:50:05Z

“Al largo,” as the composer explains in a program note, is an Italian expression that refers to being offshore at the place where the land recedes from view and the ocean lies before you. Music Review: ?Missa Solemnis? Ends New York Philharmonic Season 2010-06-24T21:09:00Z

The dance is performed to raspy live music by Hong Kong composer Dickson Lee. Tibetan choreography master seeks the unknown in others 2010-05-20T06:36:00Z

The composer and playwright is best known as the creator of “Rent,” a musical loosely based on Puccini’s 1896 opera, “La Bohème.” ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

I was heartened that one of his first moves there, long overdue, was to appoint a composer in residence, the formidable Mr. Lindberg. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

The producer and composer Adrian Younge’s recent album “The American Negro” incorporates similar orchestral flourishes over crisp backbeats. The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composers’ Dramatic ‘Library Music’ 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

“They were fearless,” said David Foster, the record producer, composer, songwriter and arranger who also got his big break from White and worked with numerous top groups because of it. Earth, Wind & Fire is forever in the groove 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Organized by the guitarist and composer Joel Harrison, the weekend-long festival within a festival features guitarists who don’t just pluck and strum. Music Review: Fred Frith and Nels Cline Create New Soundscapes 2014-01-19T22:12:56Z

“You allow it to breathe; it’s a very graceful thing to do as a composer, to go in one direction as long as you like.” An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’ 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Audible at last in all its shattering glory, unencumbered by Nijinsky’s grating visuals, it earned Stravinsky what he called “a triumph such as composers rarely enjoy.” ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z

The Latvian composer calls his short solo for violin and strings from 2006 a meditation. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Who knows what flights of inspiration the composer might have had? At the Bard Music Festival, Concerts and Argument 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

He was an efficient gigging composer in an age when pieces were rarely performed twice. La Serenissima ? review 2011-01-27T21:45:01Z

By the time the members of this impressive percussion ensemble joined forces in 2005, the composer Steve Reich was already a grandfather figure in the American new-music scene. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

After the 1980s, he was less active as a composer, although he occasionally performed with his quartet and recorded more library music as a soloist. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

Schott/EAM, a publisher of contemporary composers, recently posted an inspiring list of works from its catalog appropriate for social distancing. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Alastair said that as a child, his father turned him on to bands like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and the Clash, as well as composers like Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

At the Philharmonic, Bernstein provided a model of using a music director’s post to inform audiences and foster the work of living composers. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

It was refreshing to hear a contemporary opera composer venture outside the now-standard neo-Romantic vocal line, but the result was pretty docile. Review | Small opera plus big ideas make, this weekend, for a misfit 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

The composer Christopher Cerrone’s gorgeous “Invisible Cities” did not fit “the framework of a traditional opera company,” Mr. Cerrone said in an interview. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

All of the hard edges are blunted and softened, as if the composer couldn’t bear to put more darkness into the world. Review | After 100 years, a gentle Requiem has its premiere 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, it might doom a composer to failure. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mazzoli spoke about “Proving Up” in a conversation that also touched on her path to becoming an opera composer. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

And although the orchestrations in use weren’t those of the composers, at least the tunes are all there — which is more than you can say for the Hollywood adaptations of the same works. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

You may be wondering, why would a composer insist on darkness? Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z

And it's only in the late 19th century that the professional conductor, as opposed to the composer- or pianist-conductor, was taken seriously as a vocation in musical life. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

The “Dissonance” quartet is the last in a set of six that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, who then deemed Mozart “the greatest composer known to me.” Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

If you are going to salute the composer Gyorgy Ligeti, you might as well ask one of his most dedicated and perceptive collaborators to lend a hand. Celebrating the Music of Ligeti: ‘The Incarnation of a Free Spirit’ 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

"It's just not like someone inherited some money and they built a building," said San Francisco bassist, jazz composer and bandleader Marcus Shelby. SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z

The composer himself makes the most of that scene: the spitting, mewling chorus of sinners provides an interlude of rapid, angular music in a score almost too generous in its unrationed radiance, but compelling nonetheless. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

In France we actually tend to think of Berlioz almost as a German composer.” Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is a riddle that, like the composer’s famous harmonies, will remain forever unresolved. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Today, when it’s the norm for composers to blend traditions, his approach seems ahead of its time. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Now there is “Limitless,” a set of duos for violin and another instrument, each performed by Ms. Koh and the composers, in two concerts at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, Rose is willing to wait on Sanford, in part because this composer can justify the material in every bar of a piece. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The sequence follows our traditional sense of Sibelius: a crackly recording, the snowy woods of his native Finland, a reclusive composer in a provincial land. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

He was an actor, a composer, a writer and a grocer. Paterson Joseph Brings Charles Ignatius Sancho to Life at BAM Fisher 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The Carlsbad Music Festival, founded by composer Matt McBain 11 years ago is, each year, more impressive. Music Walk in Carlsbad and a 'Parade' at the Hammer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

When he died on July 27 in Helsinki, Finland, at 87, one epitaph quickly gained currency: “The greatest Finnish composer since Sibelius.” Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Force of Destiny was written in the middle years of the composer's career, and founded on a Spanish play by the Duke of Rivas that is the epitome of literary romanticism. La Forza del Destino 2010-07-28T20:29:00Z

Few composers are lucky enough to have an advocate like the New York Philharmonic’s music director, Alan Gilbert. Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

‘FALSTAFF’ Riccardo Muti, the king of Verdi, reigned anew as he led his Chicago Symphony Orchestra in sublime concert performances of that composer’s great final comedy in April. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

He also found early success as a composer, writing music for the Modesto Symphony that was heavily influenced by film scores and 19th-century Romanticism. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

That the composer is Elton John has only intensified interest in a project that also includes the Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears as lyricist and the prolific playwright James Graham as book writer. Review: Praise the Lord for ‘Tammy Faye’ 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

According to the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, no composer since Beethoven has done more to invigorate the symphonic literature, with the exceptions of Gustav Mahler and Dmitri Shostakovich. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Dutch composer, who was a nephew of the Surrealist artist M.C. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

And Padmore, his tenor sound delicate and direct, with an unforced undercurrent of sadness, can feel like the incarnation of this composer’s style. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Anton Bruckner had a steadfast circle of supporters, including some significant conductors and composers. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

Mr. Hough, also a composer, is a lively writer who maintains a newsy blog. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

“How great must a composer be to allow himself to write about nothing?” Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

On Sunday, ten film composers are collaborating on a special piece of music inspired by Handel's Water Music which will be performed at a flotilla as part of the Diamond Jubilee Pageant. AUDIO: 'Pirate inspiration' for flotilla music 2012-05-29T08:47:43Z

The man’s highhanded treatment of the instrumentalist enraged the composer, Horowitz said. Tributes pour in for Sondheim, the greatest theater composer-lyricist of our time 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jarrell, 59, is of the generation of European composers who grew up in a musical landscape dominated by Pierre Boulez and created work that largely — and often interchangeably — echoed his style. After 350 Years, Paris Still Defines Opera 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

"He saw himself as much a dramatist as a composer and his music was inextricably linked to the stories told on the screen." Bond composer Barry dies aged 77 2011-01-31T13:19:53Z

The composer, a presence of absurdity and application, played the cups. Review: ICE Features Levy Lorenzo on Teacups and Rebekah Heller on Bassoon 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Its premise looked dubious: four works by very different composers, all bracketed as “new music from Nordic countries.” Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Yet he was also a composer of considerable stature, and Chandos's ongoing retrospective of his orchestral works – this is volume five – is a reminder of just how influential he was. D'Indy Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français; Médée; Saugefleurie – review 2013-04-11T20:45:01Z

Taking under its developmental wing a fresh young musical-writing team, Signature Theatre has opened its main stage to the world premiere of “Gun & Powder” by librettist-lyricist Angelica Chéri and composer Ross Baum. Perspective | People said her great-great-aunts posed as white and robbed banks. So she wrote a musical about them. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Foster, a former jingle composer, evades being pinned down to a style. Music Review: Foster the People at Rumsey Playfield 2012-05-30T22:30:07Z

The Philharmonic’s commission for “Evening Land” became something of a hand-me-down from another Danish composer, Per Norgard, Mr. Sorensen’s former teacher. Review: A Stirring Premiere at the Philharmonic, With Perfect Timing 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach was both the scion and the father of musicians: Four of his 20 children became significant composers. Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Nora, a struggling music composer in her late 20s who lives in Oakland, moves back to her hometown in Southern California, where the fatal incident occurred, to try to determine what happened. Review | Laila Lalami explores life on the margins in ‘The Other Americans’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Turnage, a respected composer of two previous operas, has set Thomas's words to a tuneful, percussive score that is highly accessible on first hearing. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

It's a problem; composers must be free, but we also need money. Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z

The foot-stomping numbers, so foreign to my sensibility yet so delightful, made me wonder why this rootsy style of music hadn't been tested out more often by composers gunning for Broadway. 'Bright Star' wears its old-fashioned heart on its gingham sleeve 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the composer found himself writing more and more new music. 'Hateful Eight' puts veteran Ennio Morricone's score center stage 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Robert Workman/Robert Workman Photographer David Bruce is a composer who enjoys playing with fire. The Firework-Maker's Daughter – review 2013-03-24T18:11:00Z

“A lot of these composers have disappeared because people don’t know what to look for,” Ms. de la Martinez said in an interview with Mr. Sachs. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The pleasure and indulgence of an intelligent TV hour, devoted to a contemporary composer, comes round all too rarely. Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies - review 2011-07-16T05:00:01Z

The composer and lyricist would be Bob Dylan — decades before he proffered his songbook to Twyla Tharp for 2006’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and to Conor McPherson for “Girl From the North Country.” Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Such is the humble lot of composers in Hollywood: they enter the creative process late, they write on dire deadlines, and they grapple with all manner of vague or arbitrary demands. Composing for Hollywood 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

And just to give winter and young women their full due, you will also hear the teenage composer Yuri Lee’s “Blustery Day.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

He liked the comprehensiveness of the word, which encompassed composing, performing, teaching, advocating on behalf of living composers. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Two recitals this week — one wonderful, one not — set a listener to thinking about keyboards, their composers and their players. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“But there are so few composers who have the luxury of turning projects down, that they may find a way to enter into that project that works for them.” Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

It's epically orchestrated, dramatic, rousing and features one of the most memorable and triumphant brass melodies of any nineteenth-century composer. Exam warrior songs: music to focus the mind – playlist 2013-05-20T09:04:00Z

But Graham's philosophy was, how to find a role for the composer in improvising music. Old music: The Graham Collier Sextet – Lullaby for a Lonely Child 2012-06-18T08:37:56Z

This article completes my two-week project to select the top 10 classical music composers in history, not including those still with us. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

This foursome is never to be missed, still less when, considering their wealth of experience with the composer, they are playing Beethoven. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Transported from suburban London, I dreamed about foreign lands and the grandeur of the Great Gate of Kiev – the finale is based on a design for the gate by the composer’s friend Hartmann. The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

But both composers aimed for the heart as well, which is where they held each other and each other’s music. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

Then, a month before the premiere, the composer and choreographer part ways. Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

A much more recent early death, and at the same age as Gershwin, was that of the New Orleans-raised, London-based trumpeter, singer, composer and teacher Abram Wilson – who sadly died of cancer on 9 June. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – June 2012-06-22T12:10:00Z

A composer of disparate works, he is most famous for “Unsilent Night,” a postmodern Christmas carol comprising sounds that emanate from portable cassette players toted through city streets by a small army of eager participants. Music Review: Phil Kline’s ‘dreamcitynine’ at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012-08-05T21:31:18Z

But amid all this revelry the centenaries of two formative American composers slipped by with little notice. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z

Elsewhere, Gershon included a clutch of short a cappella works written by composers associated with the Master Chorale in wake of “Lux Aeterna,” though none seemed to directly reflect its sound world. L.A. Master Chorale finds more magic in 'Lux Aeterna' 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the first work by a Black composer to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera, played to sold-out houses as word of mouth spread. Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

"Jazz has never been exclusive," says the man some have described as "the greatest living composer". Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

Though Wagner is the most discussed composer of all time, the discussion is only meaningful because of the quality and originality of the music. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Listen closely when you attend a performance, and you’ll hear the Russian composer’s mastery at orchestration. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

Many of the great painters or composers led very violent and strange lives. William Friedkin: 'If I wasn't a director, I might have become a serial killer' 2012-06-29T11:31:00Z

When Disney Hall finally opened, in 2003, it created a psychological space in which living composers no longer came across as intruders. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

This year is Chopin’s bicentennial: too few dance companies are commemorating it, but in this Limón revival Theater Ballet does the composer honor. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z

Toward the end of Stravinsky’s life, when the composer had become too infirm, or too uninterested, to produce much work, Mr. Craft, his critics charged, was regularly serving as his literary, and even musical, puppeteer. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

At the end, its composer stood up to thank the group — and proceeded to give 90 minutes of feedback. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Wanting to conduct the composer’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” but unable to find a score, he wrote to ask if he might borrow one. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

January's event is being marked by a reworking of The South Bank Show theme tune, Paganini's 24th Caprice, by Lord Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber, the original composer and performer. South Bank Show nominees unveiled 2010-12-01T14:11:00Z

Season two of the cycle began last month with Beethoven’s First and Eighth Symphonies framing a freshly commissioned work — a symphony in all but name — by London-based composer Gabriel Prokofiev. A pair of striking debuts at Seattle Symphony 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

His works are loved by performers and audiences to a degree that few other living composers can match. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Dancers, composers and others practicing a singular skill followed the same pattern. It’s great to be ‘in the zone’ — while working, exercising and creating art. Here’s how to get there. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

“In the course of the contest, more encores are being written, whether by students, or by amateurs or instrumentalists who are trying writing, or by composers,” she added. Music: Orpheus, Hilary Hahn and David Lang Start Competitions 2012-02-12T15:24:35Z

As Conlon puts it, the fate of Jewish composers and musicians during the Holocaust is "a subject where there is very little general knowledge of what was going on; we're trying to open it up." Researcher's mission to show Nazis' silencing of music during Holocaust 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s not music that’s virtuosic for virtuosity’s sake — which is something I’m not really interested in, as a pianist or a composer,” he said. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

She knows just how to handle composers who surf the line between a Romantic sensibility and a modern sound. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z

The two first met during the second world war, when Michael was a pupil of the composer at Morley College, near Waterloo station, in central London. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z

When I noted this in a review of opening events on Thursday, June 9, the composer, vocalist and pianist Leila Adu added on Twitter that women of color were especially prominent. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“What became clear is that you need to know who you are rooting for and who you’re hopeful about,” said Jason Howland, the show’s composer and music supervisor. Joaquina Kalukango Isn’t Afraid to Speak Up Anymore 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

When I get stuck creatively as a composer, moving to a different art form is really good. Dave Malloy Wrote ‘The Great Comet,’ but He’s Not Much of a Painter 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Still, setting aside the stilted advice and many linguistic clichés that reveal Hancock as a more gifted composer and improviser than a writer, there are rewards in the marrow of "Possibilities." Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz

Tovey, a first-rate Gershwin pianist, transformed the Phil into a big band for that composer's "Shall We Dance: Finale and Coda." Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

A new program in honor of Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will reward outstanding teachers across the country with $10,000 grants, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Tuesday. Grant program will honor Sondheim, reward teachers 2010-09-28T15:27:00Z

James Dillon, composer of some of the boldest and most expressive orchestral, chamber and theatre works around. A Guide to James Dillon's music 2013-02-04T15:50:00Z

New music dominates Bridge’s catalog, with series devoted to more than a dozen important living composers and single-disc overviews of many others. Bridge Records Holds Onto Its Niche, With a Very Firm Grip 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z

He had one earlier chance, when the composer Stephen Schwartz offered him the chance to direct “Wicked” on Broadway. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

As for the three Shakespeare pieces, they represented a grail of classical music marketing: all by well-known composers, yet all pieces you might not have heard before. The playing’s the thing: NSO shines despite, not because of, Shakespeare gimmick 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The sunset seemed to match perfectly the airborne, chiming music created for the occasion by the gifted composer Michael Friedman. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the Weather at Delacorte Theater 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, the Philharmonic is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which brought the vote to women, by commissioning 19 female composers. The Surprise of Jaap van Zweden’s Philharmonic Tenure? Surprise 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Among the best known facts about Mozart’s Requiem in D minor is that the composer died before finishing it. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

‘LIAISONS’ This ongoing project, conceived by the pianist Anthony de Mare, has corralled notable composers to arrange for him solo-piano versions of Stephen Sondheim songs. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

All the money is going to these composers. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

I have been saying for years that in a just world the theatre composer Dave Malloy would be on Broadway; now, gloriously, he is. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Grey, the composer, has started developing the program. A Sibling Rivalry Divides a Famous Artist’s Legacy 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Roomful of Teeth is an octet of singers trained in unusual vocal techniques from around the world, and the composers who write for the group typically draw on those effects in subtly unsettling ways. Review: Roomful of Teeth Duels With Sounds of the Financial District 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

They played the three early sonatinas dating from 1816 when the composer was still in his teens. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z

Her essay enumerated some of the causes that had prevented female composers from achieving the success and renown afforded to their male counterparts, among them sex-based prejudice and societal expectations. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z

The composers played piano duets and dedicated works to each other. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

His dexterity as a composer has never been more vividly showcased as it was, and is, in “Cats.” Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

As fascism spread in Europe in the 1930s, Jewish artists and composers struggled to have their music heard. Music Thwarted by the Holocaust Will Now Be Published 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

He wanted to take the ideas of the Indian spiritual guru Meher Baba and somehow translate them into music — specifically, the kind of repetitive, modal sounds produced by minimalist composer Terry Riley. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Honor the chords and write for the voice not the composer's ego. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

With the Washington Chorus’s larger forces, the piece — by one of the most popular living composers, who writes tonally and tunefully for chorus — sounded even more imposing and, well, wintry. Review | Christopher Bell strikes soundly in his first D.C. outing 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

There, she cut and spliced magnetic tape being used by Schaeffer and another composer, Pierre Henry. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

The label Unseen Worlds has done brisk trade with timely reissues, including masterly surveys of works by the composer Laurie Spiegel. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

A strong case could be made for Schubert’s being the greatest of all song composers. Trio shows Schubert’s challenges 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

The programs offered five works, ranging from Brahms’s Second Symphony to an inventive new piece by a young Iceland-based composer. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

The festival is designed to encourage “creative next steps for dancers, musicians, choreographers and composers,” Woetzel said in an email. Vail Dance Festival’s Season to Feature New Work by 10 Choreographers 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

He did not name those he criticised, but he praised British conductor Sir Simon Rattle and French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez as "real masters". Royal composer Peter Maxwell Davies attacks 'lazy' conductors 2011-01-10T01:00:37Z

The German composer - and Hollywood favourite - collected his outstanding contribution prize from Sir Michael Caine. Zimmer triumphs at Classic Brits 2013-10-03T10:10:36Z

And Ms. Chai did not speak to the audience to explain, for example, why “Where Is Chopin?” included no piece by that classic composer. Review: The Pianist Jenny Q Chai, Evoking Chopin Without His Work 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

But Pärt happens to be a hands-on composer, and one can be fairly certain that in both cases this is exactly what the composer wanted. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Further evidence for such a label includes praise she has received from the composer Ingram Marshall. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Twenty years later, she reminded us why Upon Silence remains one of the composer's most profound offerings. George Benjamin Portrait/Into the Little Hill 2010-06-21T20:45:00Z

Tributes have been paid to the British classical composer Jonathan Harvey, who has died in Lewes, east Sussex aged 73. Jonathan Harvey, composer, dies 2012-12-06T10:04:51Z

“Every composer walks alone, in a way,” Newski said in an interview. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Music scholar David Lehman, for example, writes that Christmas “became a secular holiday” thanks to the efforts of composer Irving Berlin, a Russian Jewish immigrant whose “White Christmas” unified Americans during the Second World War. What Hanukkah’s portrayal in pop culture means to American Jews 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The Dvorak program on Friday began relatively inauspiciously with the symphonic poem “The Noonday Witch,” a rare inferior effort by a composer who wrote no end of great orchestral works, large and small. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

There's a nugget of received wisdom that holds that composers should steer clear of first-rate verse. Mark Padmore/Andrew West – review 2013-06-14T17:22:01Z

And with Folds playing — as well as music by Mason Bates and other living composers — it’s not quite the classical music norm, either. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Rather than riffs on Billings, the only sustained sonic reference to an 18th-century composer in “Hamilton” is to a European, Johann Sebastian Bach. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Walt Disney Studios called Glass to dissuade him, but by then the composer was committed. Philip Glass opera shows Walt Disney's fantasy world in a new light 2013-01-06T00:08:29Z

I have to say that she’s also a very Russian composer in the sense that one always hears bells. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Yet an all-Black roster of composers is hardly business as usual at a mainstream institution like the Philharmonic. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Young composers today who dabble in popular forms tend to draw from that musical world. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

The Calders and Formalists turned to senior American composers inexcusably neglected. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the comparative rarity of this Renaissance composer’s works is meant to qualify them for a berth at a new music festival. Music Review: So Percussion at Gary Snyder/Project Space 2010-05-09T21:48:00Z

This Chinese-born composer benefits from the first of Miller’s spring composer portraits, and from the advocacy of the new-music royalty on hand to perform her pieces: the International Contemporary Ensemble and Yarn/Wire. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

He’s evolving and is indeed a very good composer.” At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

After all, there are composers whose music, and indeed whose lives, seem less privately contemplative, more obviously playful, dramatic or public. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

As a young Californian composer, he questioned all assumptions about the great classical music heritage, concert rituals and contemporary compositional styles, including the very pitches of the standard chromatic scale. Review: ‘Delusion of the Fury,’ With New Partch Instruments 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Angélica Negrón, the garden’s composer in residence, speaks for them, too, but she gives them voice with music. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The program heralded the arrival of Christopher Rouse, a distinguished American artist, as the Philharmonic’s new composer in residence. Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z

This is a less momentous addition to the Met’s repertoire than Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the season last fall and was the company’s first opera by a Black composer. Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

The festival began in 1993 with contemporary composer George Benjamin taking the baton, and since then figures from different musical worlds have stepped up. Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Recently the prize has broadened in aesthetic scope and given a career boost to young composers like Ms. Shaw, who was 30 when she won. A Year After Kendrick Lamar, Will the Music Pulitzer Embrace Pop? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

They were brought in to write the music and lyrics after the original composer was replaced. A Pasek and Paul Primer 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The early set on Sunday will feature H-Alpha, a group involving electronics; the later set will be a tribute to the drummer and composer Paul Motian, with several of Mr. Black’s longtime colleagues. Jazz Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:23:06Z

And that in his prime as a virtuoso performer — say, the 1960s through the 1990s — Perlman was often the one that American music fans went to for high-quality recordings of the great composers' violin compositions. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

In February, the New York Philharmonic inaugurates Project 19, an ambitious, multiseason commissioning project of 19 female composers to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The festival seeks to spotlight a composer in the context of contemporaries and predecessors. Review: Bard Festival Salutes Carlos Chávez 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

"You don't know anything," said composer Julia Wolfe, who won the coveted award last year for her choral piece "Anthracite Fields," an unconventional exploration into the history of coal mining in rural Pennsylvania. Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning 'Anthracite Fields' makes its West Coast debut at Disney Hall 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Brian died in 1972 at the age of 96, and Grimshaw has spent four decades promoting the work of this great British composer, who wrote music for an incredible 80 years. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

The protagonist of “Der ferne Klang” is a composer who leaves his beloved behind in a quest for the “distant sound,” hoping it will bring him fame and fortune that enable him to marry her. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

In the half-year since, the label has continued to put out a string of winning recordings, including, this month, “Nature,” the first full-length collection of orchestral pieces by the English composer Tansy Davies. In a Dark Time, This Music Will Make You Smile 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

“The great composers always change,” she once said in an interview. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan for their 1885 operetta, relocating the action to a fantastical land that resembles a circus crossed with a carnival. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

One suspects that Ms. Bogart is just as interested in making us think about what theater means and what we want from it as is the composer. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Sadly leader, singer and composer Larry Cassidy died from natural causes earlier this month: let this transcendent masterpiece be his fitting testament. Jon Savage on song: Section 25 ? Looking from a Hilltop (Megamix) 2010-03-23T12:08:00Z

Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of “South Park” fame, along with the composer Robert Lopez, “Mormon” won for best director, score, book and featured actress, among other categories. ?War Horse? and ?Mormon? Shine at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:00:20Z

Set to a string score of the same name by the contemporary American composer Ted Hearne, this odd, convention-bending ballet is a lot of things; boring is not one of them. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Messiaen, Scriabin — things where the composer claims certain chords have certain colors, and that have rapturous, endless clouds of notes” were Mr. Denk’s suggestions in an email. Proposing Selections for Colorado’s Cannabis Concerts 2014-05-09T21:43:05Z

Most young composers on their first orchestra piece couldn’t pull that off. Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The composer’s protestations notwithstanding, these “Song Books” have certainly entered the art-music repertory. Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Sleeping Giant includes six Brooklyn composers, four of whom — Andrew Norman, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper and Robert Honstein — contributed to “Histories.” Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Riffs on Stravinsky at Weill Hall 2012-02-19T21:40:18Z

For that performance, the score was adapted once again, this time for string orchestra, by the composer and horn player Michael P. Atkinson, a member of the New York-based ensemble the Knights. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

And on Wednesday, at David Geffen Hall, he conducted the radiant premiere of a richly atmospheric piece by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Review: An Orchestral Odyssey Through Chaos and Beauty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

The act usually involves a confrontation between two perspectives — that of a composer and that of a performer or performers — with the goal of achieving a combination informed and enriched by both perspectives. Music Review: Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z

The art form emerged around 1600 in Florence, Italy, where a group of composers, poets and intellectuals embraced a sophisticated style of recitative in an attempt to reinvent lyric Greek drama for contemporary audiences. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Looking toward the 1806 revival, the composer made a revision of the slow movement — almost certainly a simplification — and he at least considered dropping the fast movement altogether. A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

A Gathering for Both Conversing and Playing Among opportunities to hear music by the composer David Lang performed live, the best are those in which he is invited to talk about his works. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z

The music is a slow, tenebrous waltz by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, “Valse Triste.” Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

She then became a fixture at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel, where she reached a pinnacle of critical acclaim performing the songbooks of major theater composers with the pianist William Roy. Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

In charming remarks to the audience from the podium, Noseda offered a thumbnail outline of the program, which presented three composers of roughly contemporaneous dates: Respighi, Rachmaninoff and Casella. Review | Unexpected Rachmaninoff, majestic Italy in NSO concert 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Each of its four gentle and melodic movements is “a kind of nocturne,” says the composer, who was inspired by the sight of the night sky. Myriad Trio, in its Kennedy Center debut, is nearly impossible to not like 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

She said she did not feel it was appropriate for Ukrainian singers to appear in operas by Russian composers now, but she believed many of those works should still be performed. Dropping Anna Netrebko, the Met Turns to a Ukrainian Diva 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Grammy winning violinist and composer, who is originally from Seattle, will discuss his work in classical, American bluegrass and country music, and perform a program of modern classical music. Fiddler Mark O'Connor gives a free concert at the Seattle Public Library 2011-01-26T22:52:09Z

Adams’ grounding as an orchestral composer comes from hands-on experience: for a decade, he was timpanist and principal percussionist for the Fairbanks Symphony and the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z

All three composers made the most of Ms. Beiser’s ability to coax a wide range of sounds out of her instrument. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z

An experimental composer who once created a new piece of music every day for a year. Why the current political moment makes the new Herb Alpert awards for experimental artists so relevant 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

That center was a magnet for innovative composers from across the subcontinent, with a state-of-the-art electronic music studio that fired Orellana’s imagination. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Because although its composer, Margaret Bonds, who died in 1972 at 59, was on some people’s radar — not least because of her long and deep friendship with Langston Hughes — her papers were nearly forgotten. Perspective | A forgotten voice for civil rights rises in song at Georgetown 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Santos, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who died in 2006 at the age of 80, wasn’t known for his own virtuosity so much as for his original brilliance in composition and arrangement. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Still, a central mission of the Encores! series is the presentation of musicals with scores by major Broadway composers that are unlikely to receive fully staged revivals. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z

Tarantino has declared Morricone his favorite composer, so it's not surprising that the Italian idol would make him feel like a kid again. 'Hateful Eight' puts veteran Ennio Morricone's score center stage 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z

For much of his intensely creative life, the Polish trumpeter and composer Tomasz Stanko has been a key presence in the European renaissance. Tomasz Stanko/John Surman – review 2013-05-16T17:22:34Z

Mr. Lee worked with colleagues who have helped him turn his vision into cinema before, including Terence Blanchard, his longtime composer. Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

It was an impressive showing for a composer described earlier in his career as "a musical loner." Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

The new dance by King is set to music by the jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran. American Ballet Theater Plans a Return to Met Opera Stage 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

“The Glass engagement was meant to be a weekend celebration of the composer’s 80th birthday featuring performances and talks with Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble,” the Globe reported. This is the story of the Fyre Festival of Classical music, enjoy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The quartet, based for many years at Columbia University, was renowned for performing the work of 20th-century American composers like Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Unlike many prominent younger composers, he hasn’t founded his own ensemble, played regularly as a performer or collaborated with pop musicians. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The album’s title work is Hough’s own Piano Sonata No. 4, “Vida Breve,” referring to a life cut short, a sensation its composer conveys in an episodic, nine-minute work in one movement. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The eminent jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders teamed up with the electronic musician and composer Floating Points, né Sam Shepherd, to record “Promises,” which both expanded and cooled down each musician’s natural aesthetics. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

This year’s edition, directed for the second consecutive year by the composer and conductor Thomas Adès and spread over five days, was no exception. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

When I approach contemporary composers to write for the classical mandolin, this is what I have in mind. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn, who died six months later, channeled his grief into this turbulent quartet, whose character, according to the composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles, seemed “consistent with his deeply disturbed frame of mind.” Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z

As a composer, Liszt was often an iconoclastic adventurer, especially in works with fluid, diaphanous textures and sounds that anticipated Impressionism. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Two hundred years after his birth, he remains – with Bach – the largest enduring contemporary presence of all the great composers. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Introducing the encore, Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 21 in Dvorak’s orchestration, Mr. Lacombe referred to the friendship between those composers, and between himself and Mr. Hétu, who died in February. Music Review: A Jacques Lacombe Preview With , New Jersey Symphony 2010-04-23T22:38:00Z

Elgar's Gerontius is a lengthy work suffused with the composer's Catholic faith, describing the itinerary of a soul towards final judgment. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

It is easier to admire a composer who wrote messages of resistance and rebellion into his music than one who fearfully accommodated. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Additionally, this year’s Whitsun Festival, held May 18 to 21, will celebrate the composer Gioachino Rossini, who died 150 years ago. 10 Festive Hotels in Europe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

The creative team includes additional composers and writers and choreographer Danielle Agami, and it is no simple matter for the audience to piece this all together. 'Hopscotch' moves around L.A. and sometimes transports 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Rosenthal – creator of TV series London's Burning and co-author, with Barbra Streisand, of the film Yentl – includes among his dramatis personae a bonkers lyricist, an arrogant director, a bad-tempered composer and a bombastic producer. This week's new theatre 2011-03-19T00:06:42Z

Mr. Baryshnikov said any kind of artist — filmmakers, dramaturges, choreographers, composers — would be eligible. Baryshnikov Plans Fund-Raising to Give Artists Space 2014-01-15T23:30:41Z

Dave Frishberg, the jazz songwriter whose sardonic wit as a lyricist and melodic cleverness as a composer placed him in the top echelon of his craft, died on Wednesday in Portland, Ore. He was 88. Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The composer Virgil Thomson called him “an absolutely first-rate oboist — one of the two or three great ones at that time in the world.” Mitch Miller, Maestro of the Singalong, Dies at 99 2010-08-02T16:28:00Z

Reached by phone hours after the verdict, Stone's attorney Nicholas Hornberger called the decision "good news for music, good news for composers and others who earn their livelihood in this business." Sly Stone awarded $5 million in back royalties, damages 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Hardy organized the Harmonettes and was its original pianist, composer and arranger. Evelyn Starks Hardy, Founder of the Gospel Harmonettes, Dies at 92 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

There are also some effective swatches of film composer Hans Zimmer’s sweeping orchestral music. The musical that roared: ‘Lion King’ returns to the Paramount 2014-03-14T23:59:20Z

McCarthy was impressed with the veteran composer’s collaborative nature. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic’s Bandwagon series of pop-up concerts debuted with a premiere by the Black composer Carlos Simon. Orchestras Are Rushing to Add Black Composers. Will It Last? 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The festival also announced that the recording artist and film composer RZA will be a keynote speaker as well. Ava DuVernay Will Serve as a Keynote Speaker at SXSW 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

He explains the work: “We do outdoor spectacles that are celebratory, meant to unify audiences. We’re funny, loud, flamboyant. We usually avoid storytelling, characters and plots. I’m visual and she’s a composer.” Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

It's a double bill, pairing Seattle folk-rockers Hey Marseilles with composers using the music of local jazz and rock legends Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana as their springboards. Seattle Symphony's new season: 'Doctor Atomic' is in there, so is 'Rite of Spring' 2011-01-19T20:11:23Z

Few of his works play to type, even if he was responsible for defining what that type — the Classical style — would mean for generations of future composers. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The piece is on a program of the always innovative University of Maryland Wind Orchestra, along with a brand-new work by American composer Alvin Singleton. Fall preview: From ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ to ‘Dragon Rhyme,’ fantasy resounds in D.C.

But 100 years ago US composer Charles Ives dispensed with the practice of adhering to one musical key to create eerie atmospheres and shifting moods. Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z

This was true in the early eighteenth century, when the German composer George Frideric Handel wrote Italian operas in London. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Dark Knight Rises composer Hans Zimmer will sell his tribute piece online to raise funds for victims of the Aurora shootings. Dark Knight Rises composer releases musical tribute to Aurora victims 2012-07-31T11:01:11Z

I identified four composers, including Angélica, and she started telling me what she imagined. Drag Star Sasha Velour Lip-Syncs for Her Operatic Life 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

The Lark Ascending, written in 1914 by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams – recently named Britain's favourite Desert Island Disc – is in second place. New York state of mind: listeners pick 9/11 soundtrack to mark anniversary 2011-08-26T20:53:53Z

There is rarely the sense, as there is with greater dancers and choreographers, of a conversation with the composer. Dance Review: Ballet Arizona in Ib Andersen?s ?Play? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-23T23:51:31Z

Just as any great pianist would provide the requisite lilt to a Bach gavotte, yMusic delivers a necessary jolt of rhythmic energy to a generation of composers steeped in nonclassical idioms. yMusic to Bring Its Versatility to Ecstatic Music Festival 2012-02-03T17:45:10Z

There were moments featuring collaborations with experimental composers like La Monte Young and Tony Conrad, but also passages of fairly pure pop bliss. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after World War II that pieces by female composers other than Cécile Chaminade were likely to be found in popular piano anthologies. Filipina pianist Cécile Licad in recital at Dumbarton Oaks

The offbeat, alternative sensibility that fueled the works that catapulted the composers to success may be challenging to sustain within more conventional classical music forms and trappings. Hot composer offers lukewarm work at Dumbarton Oaks 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

But what's become clear to me, after a decade of working with him and performing his music, is that these scores are not just for composers or musicians. Taking Maurice Sendak's fantasies to the opera 2012-10-29T11:50:39Z

The work found its way into the hands of the influential composer and musicologist Igor Buketoff, whose father had immigrated to the United States early in the century. Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ by Clarion Choir 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in Buenos Aires. Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango composer and musical pathbreaker, dies at 100 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Richter had 19 of the sonatas in his repertoire, and counted the composer among his favorites. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Against all this, there is no doubt that some composers are turning to technology to reclaim a more vivid and contemporary visual world for their music. The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years 2011-02-03T22:30:01Z

"It's just something that happens," the composer said. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

She begins a daily morning routine of practicing, including warming up with scales and working on pieces by Bellini, Rossini, Puccini and other composers. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

David Bottoms, a money manager, pianist and composer who sits on the hall’s board, performed his “Variations on a Theme in Memory of 9/11/01.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z

Other romantic composers such as Robert Schumann, who was committed to an asylum, experienced auditory and visual hallucinations which some believed were the product of his musical genius. Chopin's hallucinations possibly due to epilepsy 2011-01-25T12:42:08Z

A young and flexible pianist, Mr. Bryant is comfortable playing savvy rearrangements of jazz standards in the basement at Smalls, or filling a featured role in an ensemble led by the experimental composer Henry Threadgill. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

He is partial to Russian composers and Liszt. The Newest Power Player in Luxury’s First Family 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

A founding member of the Bang on a Can composer collective, Wolfe wrote the instrumental parts for the rocking Bang on a Can All-Stars sextet. West Coast premiere of 'Anthracite Fields' by L.A. Master Chorale mines the depths of American music 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

Certainly, female instrumentalists have long since assumed equal footing in the profession; conductors and composers are almost there. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Part is that rarity in Western culture, a genuinely popular classical composer — popular, at least, with the public at large. Review | The BSO gives them something to shout about with an edgy program 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

To knit together the elements of “In Search of Lost Time” Proust employed Wagner-style leitmotifs, such as a haunting musical phrase by his imaginary composer Vinteuil. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

It has been hailed as a triumph for contemporary opera and for Mr. Hosokawa, who is widely seen as Japan’s most prominent living composer. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

The middle generation of Reich’s chain of three will be represented by the trio of composers forever associated with the Bang on a Can movement: Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang. The Sheer Joy of Listening to American Minimalism 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Here, you could hear dishy stories about legends like Bernstein and Poulenc, or get feedback from a living composer on music written in the 1940s. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Additional awards will be presented to composers and songwriters at the May ceremony, in recognition of their contribution to British music. London Grammar vie for top Novello 2014-04-24T10:56:16Z

It’s just that Ms. Mutter’s tireless advocacy of contemporary composers and provocative programming has led us to expect more from her than a comfortable Sunday afternoon of pretty music. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z

In this supposedly patriotic 1937 symphony, there is always the unresolved question as to whether the composer, fearful of Stalin’s lethal criticisms, wrote something subversive or sycophantic. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

So far, the project has brought attention to the work of 10 composers and music theorists. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

I was in Italy for quite a while, about a week, and Luca and I got to talking about music and composers we like. How Dev Hynes Went From Being in ‘We Are Who We Are’ to Scoring It 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

When Leon Kirchner’s first string quartet was unveiled in 1950, a Hungarian violinist buttonholed its young American composer. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

She sensed that Cipullo would be a good match as composer on the basis of his highly acclaimed 2007 opera “Glory Denied.” A new opera, commissioned by a Seattle group, brings to life the works of a Jewish Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Andrew Testa The American composer Elliott Carter, who has died aged 103, was, apart from Pierre Boulez, the last survivor of the heroic age of postwar musical modernism, and perhaps its greatest exponent. 2012 review: notable deaths in music 2012-12-24T09:00:08Z

As the movie was shot and edited, over more than a year, the composers would send Mr. Jonze music, sometimes at his request for particular scenes. The Carpetbagger: Arcade Fire Gets Inside Spike Jonze’s Brain 2014-02-11T18:30:57Z

I think we have to understand that the significance, the legacy of a composer cannot be measured by the statistics of how many performances a composer or a certain piece has at a certain time. ‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

It's also a predictable fact that there are no composers here from the second half of the 20th century or beyond. The top 10 composers of all time 2011-01-24T14:09:45Z

However, many composers, increasingly isolated in music departments, lost direct contact with mainstream audiences, something that never happened to radicals like Beethoven and Wagner. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, when the maverick American composer Lou Harrison first prepared “Young Caesar” — an opera with a libretto by Robert Gordon — he ran into homophobic headwinds. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Jay Alan Zimmerman, a deaf composer and musician, was used to positioning himself near the speakers at clubs, straining to feel the vibrations of songs he could not hear. A Way to Feel the Music Through Your Skin 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

But he has never been a dogmatic or stylistically strict composer. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Homeland star Damian Lewis hosted the awards at London's Savoy Hotel, attended by such luminaries as broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, actor Hugh Grant and singer Tori Amos, composer of The Light Princess's score. Standard award for 'Queen' Mirren 2013-11-18T10:41:02Z

The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, representing 12,000 composers and songwriters, says publishing agreements are often less fair than if the market were truly open. Composers tell EU: Broadcasters treat us unfairly 2012-02-29T07:16:04Z

Goodall said the series is not about a role call of famous composers, or even about places. Blackadder composer to present music history series 2012-12-12T17:35:43Z

The program also includes a piece by the Swedish composer Lisa Streich, which will be performed by percussionists on a bicycle. Dance Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:01:08Z

And where Monteverdi went, generations of composers followed, such as Handel, whose London operas are peppered with extravagant and powerful women. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

An unexpected consequence of the digital shift is that it has brought performers closer to historical sources, including composer manuscripts. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

I thought, "All right, this is a great composer working, and I know this deserves to be on Broadway." A Tony Awards round table with L.A.-area theater leaders 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

A previous version, with another composer, was shelved. Get ready for another ‘Freaky Friday’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The composer Oliver Knussen, who directed the festival this year, guaranteed that this would be the case by emphasizing depth rather than breadth. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z

A master composer, he reimagined his own music throughout the night. James Blake awes Lincoln Theatre crowd with exercise in subtlety and space 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Armstrong, the composer and co-author of the musical, returns Feb. 10. Melissa Etheridge to step into 'American Idiot' 2011-01-18T19:38:44Z

Commit 15 percent of your subscription series repertoire to Black and Latinx composers, for the next decade. Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

The announcement means that a number of other Spielberg projects remain on the back burner, including his proposed biopics of Abraham Lincoln and composer George Gershwin, plus the sci-fi tale Robopocalypse. Steven Spielberg takes the reins on War Horse 2010-05-04T10:36:00Z

Disney wanted to capture the essence of the film by exploring, and celebrating, music by some of the great classical composers. Honky-Tonk Tchaikovsky? ‘Fantasia’ Game Offers a Way 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The most treasured recording of Béla Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1, which ended the concert, was made by composer and violinist Joseph Szigeti in April 1940 at the Library of Congress. Violinist Joshua Bell meets his match in pianist Sam Haywood 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Thirty years ago, with the composer present, Kent Nagano conducted members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a performance at the Ojai Music Festival in which music and nature fused. Messiaen's ode to Utah's national parks is a multimedia wonder at Disney Hall 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The organization handles licensing for its members, which include songwriters, composers and music publishers. Seattle’s High Dive music venue sued for playing copyrighted songs 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

The New York City composer Lesley Flanigan works with electronics and voice to create flickering repetitions with layered vocals, a kind of choral hypnosis. New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

The apartment was next door to where the composer Handel had resided well over 200 years prior, at 25 Brook Street. A Jimi Hendrix Experience in London 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The composer was intrigued that the sirens of Circe, unlike other temptresses, lured sailors to their deaths through song. Review: For This Young Chorus, It’s Never Too Early for Six World Premieres 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

That he did not make the Met a cultivator of new operas, especially by younger composers, was a true failure. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

As with Blakey, Shorter would become that band’s most important house composer. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Bob Northern, the 82-year-old better known as Brother Ah — especially to listeners of his radio show on WPFW-FM — remembers the precise moment when he spontaneously became a composer. The secret, unreleased albums of Brother Ah, D.C.’s jazz guru 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The program's two halves opened with new or newish pieces by two living composers, both of whom were on hand to acknowledge friendly ovations. Review: At SSO, Gil Shaham ? and Borodin ? make concert special copy 2011-01-08T00:55:41Z

Mr. Tarm said he believed in Mahler’s adage that if a composer could say what he wanted in words, he wouldn’t have to bother writing the music. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

On Friday the procession continued to New York City, where the violinist and composer David Fulmer played it at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

Letters from the composer and a film reel, believed to be of the tower being opened, were also found. Elgar score found in council HQ 2012-02-14T12:52:01Z

Hearing it after the Barber brought a heightened sense of two composers articulating questions of conscience both as individuals and on behalf of humanity. BBCNOW/Outwater | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:05:00Z

Robert Curgenven, a minimal electronic composer originally from Australia and now living in Ireland, uses sound to transmit something about the space in which sound occurs. New Albums: Blackball’s Stylish Distortion, Lesley Flanigan’s Choral Hypnosis 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

After a Q&A, she disappeared and Electric Wave Bureau, composers of the film's dreamy score came on, complete with frontman Damon Albarn. Trailer trash 2013-03-10T00:05:47Z

Opening the concert was a short work by the 18th-century composer and violinist Joseph Boulogne, whose life and musical achievements have been gaining renewed attention. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

I've gained insight into the way other composers write and approach harmony. Free concert spotlights gifted young, local composers at Benaroya 2010-04-21T23:04:00Z

And not necessarily copying those things but just the feeling, the sounds with the techniques that some of those artists, the composers, use to record in their music to give us our foundation. LISTEN: “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and “Westworld” composers break down their shows’ signature sounds 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The composers’ names were just part of the small print on a 45 r.p.m. disc. Remembering Gerry Goffin, the '60s Poet of Teen Heartbreak 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Canadian composers have benefited from the robust support of the CBC, which commissioned some 1,200 pieces. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Lasting 19 minutes, the Fantasia contained no obvious theological overtones, yet its abstract unpickings of a tune by an almost forgotten Elizabethan composer seemed designed to resonate within the cathedral arches. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

So began a valued relationship with a composer who was in some ways Britten's antithesis. Robert Tear obituary 2011-03-29T17:26:32Z

Mr. Levy, who died on Monday at 82, was at midcentury an American composer of seemingly limitless promise, compared by Leonard Bernstein to Benjamin Britten. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

More extended harmonic structures are reminiscent of Messiaen, another of Tower’s favorite composers. CD reviews: Cliburn medalist takes on Prokofiev with Fort Worth Symphony 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

New songs by the composer will also be included. ‘Unmasked,’ a Musical Celebrating Andrew Lloyd Webber, to Open at Playhouse in N.J. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

We handicap our favorite composers and performers, we buy 20 recordings of the same piece just to be able to argue about interpretations. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

And especially as a composer who was not male. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z

Alf, a pianist, composer and singer, dared to blend classical, popular, foreign and local music references into his own creative process. A Black Pianist Helped Birth Bossa Nova. His Story Is Rarely Told. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The Italian Renaissance composer, whose “Orfeo” was one of the first operas, made it clear that words and score need to be equal partners. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

And, to his credit, he sets the text to vocal lines that make the words come through clearly, a skill that many composers writing operas do not share. Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z

Sondheim's lyrical and musical output following "West Side Story" presented complex characters of all types, and his works have singularly elevated the Broadway diva more than any other composer/lyricist in the past 70 years. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

At best, composers can hope for the post-intermission pride of place almost always reserved for classic symphonies. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb said he had only one complaint about Ms. Juntwait: She sounded “so immaculately correct in the way she pronounced the names of composers and titles of operas.” Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

She challenged her students to ask: “What are we really trying to do at this place?” said Turner, 39, who is a musical theater composer. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Hulton Getty The horrors of the second world war led a number of composers to create some of their finest, most heartfelt work. Carl Davis: my Kindertransport song cycle 2012-06-15T10:28:34Z

He cultivated the mystique of the composer as colossus, as a seer and hero striding the earth, channeling messages from on high and revealing them to us mere mortals. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

When the two-volume Copland autobiography was published, it was criticized for being too discreet: It omitted any mention of the composer’s sexual orientation, because Copland didn’t talk about it in the interviews. 3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers on the faculty. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

The musical character of the concerto is that of a composer much in demand working fast. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Not just to hear music, but also to schmooze with a publicist, to run into a friend, to glimpse a composer I recognized in the audience. We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

NÉZET-SÉGUIN Seeing a living composer, a living librettist in the house — interacting with new choreographers, musicians, members of the creative team — is inspiring the works by the dead ones as well. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Only one was elevated from mere anniversary composer to full-blown trend. Fiona Maddocks's best classical music of 2010 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Britten 100, a global celebration of the composer's centenary, is being marked around the UK this year. Festival marks Britten centenary 2013-06-20T07:49:58Z

As a young man he became acquainted with composer Charles Ives, who encouraged his ambitions. Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies in NY at 103 2012-11-06T02:07:08Z

If I were a young composer reading this, I might contemplate an alternative career in robotics. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Britten's studio was restored using the original plans and old photographs An archive housing manuscripts, letters and photographs belonging to the composer Benjamin Britten opens later. Britten's archive and studio opens 2013-06-14T09:29:28Z

And there are those we might not expect to have fallen under the composer’s spell, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodor Herzl, Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The overture begins with restless exuberance and darting counterpoint, then segues into a restrained second theme that shows the young composer already able to ensnare you with a soulful melody, a skill he would perfect. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z

After Netflix released the first trailer for Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," many critics took issue with Cooper wearing a prosthetic nose to portray Jewish composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, accusing the actor of performing in "Jewface." Bradley Cooper accused of “Jewface” for donning prosthetic nose in Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro” 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z

Andriessen, the Netherlands' greatest living composer, has been an astute chronicler of society since he burst onto the scene in the 1970s with his spectacular tour de force about Plato's Republic, De Staat. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

Like other Austrian composers of the 18th century, Gluck and Mozart were fond of Turkish themes as inspirations for musical style. From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Reich's birthday celebrations are a symbol of how much he's now part of the musical establishment he rebelled against as a young composer. Steve Reich at 75: the rebel who changed classical music 2011-08-09T14:47:23Z

"A director who had never done a feature before and composers who hadn't scored a movie before." Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

He’s a composer putting the final touches on his latest evening-length work. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

A Composer Arguing With Plato The composer Louis Andriessen’s pugnacious and exhilarating piece “De Staat” has a reputation as a milestone of avant-garde music in the later decades of the 20th century. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z

Movie stars, theater directors and composers embraced the film. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Though his compositional side is known today largely through Romantic miniatures and faux-Baroque pieces, Kreisler was a prolific composer with a handful of operettas to his credit. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z

As a fellow Sondheim devotee, I’ve been fascinated to hear how particular composers fixate on certain elements of these songs and transform them into original piano pieces. Review: Anthony de Mare Introduces the Last of His Sondheim Project 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

One by the American composer Richard Garet is an ensemble of old stereo speakers, a spinning turntable, a microphone and a glass marble, joined to produce a sound like a skipping record. Art Review: ‘Soundings’ Features Art With Audio Elements 2013-08-08T20:41:20Z

Continuum, the new-music ensemble founded and led by Joel Sachs and Cheryl Seltzer, is best known for its tightly focused programs devoted either to individual contemporary composers or to specific styles. Music Review: Roaming Freely (and Magically) in a Musical Universe 2011-05-02T22:23:55Z

He completed only 15, but they span his entire mature period as a composer, from 1938 to 1974, the year before he died. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

However, I would disagree that composers are uninterested in writing for mezzo-soprano. Letters: Music for mezzos 2010-12-29T00:05:03Z

The music is based on an acrostic poem the choreographer George Balanchine wrote in 1946 as a birthday present for the composer Igor Stravinsky. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

The opera, which has come to be regarded as one of the composer’s masterpieces, centers on the character of Hoffmann as he recounts stories of the women he has wooed throughout his life. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marshall was an influential figure in American experimental music, part of a group of composers who, beginning in the 1960s, stripped music down to basic elements of rhythm and tempo and incorporated digital sounds. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

From such a premise a composer of genius ought to be able to spin lasting magic. Another Tale, or Two, Of That Operatic Figaro 2011-06-03T18:19:59Z

Elsewhere another woman, "Joker" score composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, became the first solo female winner for Best Original Score and the second woman to ever win the award. Why the Golden Globes and host Ricky Gervais felt particularly pointless 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

I learned more about that composer and his quiet, skittish intensity from the quartet’s warm, alert performance, shivering with energy even in its silences. Music Review: The Artemis Quartet, Mixing Eras at Zankel Hall 2014-03-25T22:13:54Z

On Wednesday this acclaimed conductor of Mahler will lead the composer’s Seventh Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The Fahey film is being shown with “Approximately Nels Cline,” a short look at Mr. Cline, the guitarist and composer, as he creates some of his avant-garde work. Movie Review: ‘Guitar Innovators: John Fahey and Nels Cline,’ a Portrait 2013-08-15T22:10:15Z

Self-conscious about being a self-taught musician, “he wanted to be seen as a serious musician and composer,” his son said. Fred Hellerman, guitarist with pivotal folk quartet the Weavers, dies at 89 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

He recently composed a cycle of four short piano pieces that he has shown to the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who gave him advice and encouragement. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The concert also features Johann Strauss’s “Sounds of Moldavia” Waltz and a rarity: the Symphony in D by the Czech composer Josef Myslivecek. Classical Music & Opera Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Commissioning composers to reimagine Sondheim songs as piano pieces has been a longtime project for the concert pianist Anthony de Mare. Where to Celebrate Sondheim in New York 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Most American orchestras wouldn’t gamble on playing an evening-length contemporary work, particularly not one by Glass, who remains one of this country’s best known, most performed and least appreciated composers. Music of our time: Washington Chorus offers monumental Glass symphony 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

"A great man and one of our finest musicians and composers has died," he wrote on his Twitter page. 2010-02-07T10:53:00Z

For the composers represented here — all anonymous — Christmas was the joyful start of a solemn, 12-day period that leads up to the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6. Music Review: Evoking the Moods and Mysteries of a Medieval English Christmastide 2010-12-22T23:06:12Z

He also absorbed the influence of jazz kit drummers like Gene Krupa, and composers like Duke Ellington. Bringing Tito Puente’s Fire to a New Generation 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

He’s one of the few composers who always knows what he wants. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, many fine composers have embraced the deferential approach to writing incidental music while still showing that such scores can be arresting and sophisticated on their own terms. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z

In 1962 the two composers joined forces to create the Group for Contemporary Music, which for many years enriched New York’s new-music scene. Remembering Jack Beeson, Composer and Teacher 2010-07-09T22:50:00Z

The New York Philharmonic announced its multi-season Project 19, commissioning 19 works by 19 female composers to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Perspective | In classical music it was a year of building, deconstructing and, occasionally, rescuing 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

That sounds like a pretty fascinating expedition for a composer. James Horner on creating a 'sound world' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Antonov was unable to keep the perilous harmonics that open the first movement in tune with Keylin’s violin, set lower than the cello by the composer. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Buchla grew interested in musique concrète, an experimental technique using recording tape to manipulate sounds, and worked at the San Francisco Tape Music Center as both a composer and a technician. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

This year's Music-in-the-Round festival celebrated both, with a concert in honour of the country's greatest composer and Sheffield's most significant invention. Music-in-the-Round festival – review 2013-05-13T17:31:19Z

Lockhart, who is Black, said she was excited to see the first opera at the Met by a Black composer. A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Simply Scott Alan The composer is joined by Broadway veterans and recording artists for an evening of song. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 9-16: 'O Réjane' and more 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

But younger composers like Jonathan Bailey Holland don’t necessarily share his vigilance. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

“I still think it’s good that the music is being performed,” said Mr. Teitelbaum, the composer, “even if it isn’t with her.” Reviving the Ghostly Sounds of Maryanne Amacher 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

His series of paintings Homage to Music is based on works by the great composers. Alex Steinweiss obituary 2011-08-05T17:07:37Z

He demonstrated how to create atmosphere like no composer before him. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In his day Charpentier was overshadowed by his contemporary Lully, a great composer and savvy careerist who effectively monopolized music at the court of Louis XIV. Tenet Performs a Newly Crafted Baroque Vespers Score 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Last year, to mark the centenary of Mahler's birth, the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic shared a complete cycle of the composer's symphonies. Philharmonia/Maazel ? review 2011-04-13T16:21:18Z

His composer Joby Talbot is working with him on musical ideas for the characters. Christopher Wheeldon: the golden boy grows up 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z

Lisiecki’s March 28 recital will include pieces by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the composer and pianist who was the first prime minister of an independent Poland after World War I. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Lloyd Webber, not only British but a Lord, has been, in that sense, America’s most successful theater composer. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Drawing on The Iliad, it's a rich, complex piece, in some respects a thing of paradoxes, but also typical of its composer in its often relentless philosophical and psychological probing. King Priam – review 2012-05-29T16:53:42Z

Basing an opera on a myth is useful for composers because it supplies a story that the audience will already know but also allows some license to play around with the details. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

I do that usually, but I'm usually not learning so many different composers' ways of writing in any one year. Hilary Hahn unpacks new works in Seattle 2011-10-13T21:55:04Z

“I keep praising this orchestra,” Adams, the composer, said wryly. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Last fall a friend told me a story about Ryuichi Sakamoto, the renowned musician and composer who lives in the West Village. Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was also a member of Monk's 10-piece, which performed memorably at Town Hall in New York in 1959 and rehearsed with the composer Edgard Varèse, then experimenting with new methods of composition. Eddie Bert obituary 2012-10-08T10:37:04Z

In planning the fascinating series of six concerts at Zankel Hall that concluded on Tuesday night, the composer explored the various approaches composers have taken to relate tales of adventure, love, longing and spiritual questing. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

Soon it was clear that the composer was using these old song forms as materials for a fractured, deconstructed and bracingly contemporary homage. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z

There is enough wheat in Liszt's work to secure his place as one of the great composers, but enough chaff to risk distracting us from that recognition. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

In the Piano Concerto No. 1, an early work by a teenaged Rachmaninov already beginning to realize the height of his powers as a composer, Melnikov proved an impressive and impassioned interpreter. Review: Seattle Symphony, and audience, show Rachmaninov the love 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The law benefited visual artists, who, unlike composers, filmmakers or writers, do not receive a share of any future sales under copyright law. California Tried to Give Artists a Cut. But the Judges Said No. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

“I was a French hornist; I didn’t realize I was a composer,” Northern says. The secret, unreleased albums of Brother Ah, D.C.’s jazz guru 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

I spend a period of time on a certain composer or certain colleague, and then I go on. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

He is now the Street Symphony’s first composer fellow, and the program included the premiere of his “We Need Darkness to See the Stars,” written for the occasion. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Yet there's at least a scattering of works by eastern composers or played by eastern musicians and ensembles. This week's new live music 2011-08-05T23:08:11Z

He frequently commissioned work from young and emerging composers, whose music he performed as part of a monthly Friday series during the pandemic, live-streamed from his home. Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

But he replaced some with works by Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s best-known living composer, feeling it was not appropriate to play so much Russian music in light of the war. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The summer season at the Royal Opera House will highlight three short pieces by contemporary composers, reviving a tradition of experiment and fun that has been overshadowed in recent times by grand and expensive premieres. Classics to share Royal Opera House stage with experimental works 2010-05-02T14:29:00Z

Its delicious Broadway-style melody in the first movement, pulsing unease in the second and cod-Viennese waltz in the third revealed a side of the composer that his delicately tinted, exquisitely shaped concert music never suggests. Orchestra of the Swan/Curtis – review 2013-06-24T16:51:00Z

“I would rather commission two new pieces from New Jersey composers than spend the money to go to Carnegie Hall,” van Aalst said. Turning 100, the New Jersey Symphony Sticks to Home 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

And now this reserved and youthful-looking dean of Japanese music has become one of today's most imaginative and compelling composers of traditional works. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

After intermission the musicians offered a freewheeling version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in which each movement was reconfigured by one of the composers who runs Red Light. Music Review: Green Light for Experimentalism: Tweaking Conventions and Bending Rules 2010-09-21T21:26:00Z

Yet, throughout her career Ms. Bartoli, when not championing overlooked opera composers from earlier eras, has found her own path into touchstone roles and challenged audience assumptions about the standard repertory. Review: Cecilia Bartoli Has Dramatic Depth as ‘Norma’ at Salzburg Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

But if the pairs in Mr. Martins’s ballets tend to be as faithful as ’70s swingers, Mr. Martins is true to composers. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-15T20:46:54Z

It’s the 38th season for the festival established by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti. New season of Spoleto Festival USA opens Friday 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

That said, Wet Ink’s opening concert was devoted mostly to American works, with a piece by the Japanese composer Yoshiaki Onishi as the sole exception. Music Review: Wet Ink in Gaudeamus Muziekweek at New Issue Project Room 2012-01-28T00:48:03Z

The composer's theatre, the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, was designed with a covered orchestra pit so the music appeared miraculously to emanate from nowhere. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

The moment also calls to mind the “Credo” in the “Mass for Five Voices” by William Byrd, a Renaissance composer whose influence Snider has cited when discussing the album. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

He approached the foremost composers of his generation — Heitor Villa-Lobos, Joaquin Rodrigo, Manuel de Falla — to write music for the classical guitar. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

The work is divided into four movements, each dedicated to two or three influential 20th-century composers, with each one inhabiting a distinct mood. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

For some time, the young composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh sought out compatriots in a field that has long been predominantly white and male. The Week in Arts: Dancing Around Graves, Beach Read Flicks and ‘GLOW’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

The eleven composers and seven musicians — on flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello and percussion — all are from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Among the names slashed in red in the Vienna composers' index is Eric Zeisl, Schoenberg's maternal grandfather, who escaped to a career in Hollywood. Researcher's mission to show Nazis' silencing of music during Holocaust 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

It was these two composers, if not these parts, with whom she became most closely associated. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z

The programs boldly mixed composers from different eras: Ligeti and Mahler, Bach and Varèse. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

All the composers took a bow, adding a nice touch to the overall sense of artist and audience inclusiveness "Sonic Evolution" inspired. Inspirational mutations at SSO's 'Sonic Evolution' 2011-10-19T18:42:04Z

It has drawn composers like Stravinsky and Schoenberg, writers like Thomas Mann and Joan Didion, architects like Frank Gehry and artists like David Hockney. A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

He is not overly concerned with agogic markings, those indicators used by composers to specify how they wish a note to be attacked and released. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

The subscription season’s roster of guest conductors includes significant names, but they are conducting only two works by living composers, one from 1988 and the other from 1966: semi-new new music, at best. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

Many composers in the show rely on the creativity of performers, she said, though a few provide separate detailed instructions. | Long Island: ‘Notations 21 Project’ Is at Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills 2013-05-10T23:22:57Z

Mr. Wadud clinched some of these chamber music ambitions in the 1980s as part of a stellar trio with Mr. Davis and the flutist and composer James Newton. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The aim of its week-long residencies is to further the links between classical and electronic music by facilitating collaborations between composers, performers and a scientist. Brain Waves 2010-09-21T16:46:00Z

He later said, "I'd realised I wasn't going to be the next Miles Davis," so he asked Wishart if he thought he could make it as a composer. Geoffrey Burgon obituary 2010-09-22T18:10:00Z

And Martin always readily admitted that it was the Beatles as people, not, at first, as musicians, much less composers of genius, that turned him on. George The Fifth 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The one person an unprecedented symphonic success did not suit was the uncompromisingly spiritual — if also unpredictably earthy — composer, who mistrusted material miracles. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Symphony Space Announces New Music Season Symphony Space’s new music season starting this fall will include concerts focused on the music of two of Poland’s greatest composers, one living and one dead. ArtsBeat: Symphony Space Announces New Music Season 2013-07-18T18:29:32Z

Hunt is an artist and composer in Sydney. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

And many composers during these decades wrote in musical languages that, however new and challenging, also had great allure and beauty. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

In the early 1950s, Mr. Rugolo was a staff composer and arranger for MGM studios and the West Coast musical director of Mercury Records. Pete Rugolo, Arranger and Composer, Is Dead at 95 2011-10-19T04:53:00Z

Based on the Luis Buñuel film, “Angel,” Thomas Adès’s latest opera, was a hit at its Salzburg Festival premiere last year, and now makes its American debut, with the composer acting as conductor. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

In “Junun,” a new movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that documents the recording of an album by the Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, that directive is less explicit, but nonetheless evident: Crank. Jonny Greenwood Surrenders to the Drone 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

But in each of these works the composers also took the opportunity to experiment with instrumental color and novel textures. Music Review: Riverside Symphony at Alice Tully Hall 2013-06-07T21:20:02Z

The music will be written by award-winning composer David Bruce, working with librettist Glyn Maxwell. Pullman novel to become opera 2012-12-11T16:42:42Z

Director Chen Shi-Zheng, who has directed two previous Spoleto productions, said he retained traditional Japanese elements in the staging "but the music doesn't sound stereotypical of a Japanese composer." Production reflects Spoleto's international flavor 2013-06-08T18:29:08Z

“I think this style of music is becoming more accessible as it breaks rules and really allows composers to express what’s in their hearts.” What's it like to hear the L.A. Phil play your music in Disney Hall? Ask these composers, ages 16 to 18 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Czerny, an impressively prolific composer whose catalog of finished works includes almost 900 opuses, wrote five works for solo horn and piano, including this set of three pieces based on famous Schubert songs. Music Review: Hearing ?Spring? as Summer Fades 2010-09-05T22:32:00Z

They’re all serious composers; what they do is going to be good. Music Review: Jazz Evangelists Borrow Some of Stevie Wonder?s Cool 2011-04-01T23:45:44Z

Second, I want to make a case for taking the time to get to know a composer who would not flourish in the zoo, whose plumage is discreet and whose song is quiet and subtle. Gerald Finzi: the quiet man of British classical music 2011-01-27T23:41:00Z

Her argument was with God, Mr. Morrison added, not with her fellow composers or with audiences. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

A woman conductor leading a brand-new work by a woman composer is still noteworthy and surprising for its unusualness — a rarer event than it ought to be. Seattle Symphony offers free concert as part of opening weekend 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

The event "From Broadway with Love" was put on by Broadway producer Van Dean, who lives in nearby Trumbull and composer Brett Boles, who grew up in Newtown. Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre 2013-02-07T16:31:10Z

The composer and scholar George Lewis told the story of the association in his monumental 2008 study “A Power Stronger Than Itself.” Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

"People lost track of him as a composer because he did not use his position as a conductor really to advocate his own music," Jackson said. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

The young composer Christopher Trapani writes that he was trying to evoke the allure of the West — country guitars, all things Californian and even West African music — in his 15-minute “Westering.” Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z

In many great operas, composers have had to whittle down an epic literary work into a suitable libretto. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z

The most eclectic of music theatre composers was not only a gifted wordsmith and lyricist, but also had a truly original compositional voice. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Harth-Bedoya's focus is equally on contemporary South American composers, whose work, he says, is "very different but very direct — music that will engage you from beginning to end." 'Caminos del Inka' brings 'hidden' music of South America to Seattle Symphony 2010-10-21T20:20:00Z

More challenging fare — contemporary music or works by lesser-known composers — is largely relegated to smaller performance spaces. Review: A Musical Tour of Mendelssohn’s Europe 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

And meanwhile, she popped over to Park City, Utah, to debut her first film as executive producer and composer. Keys attends first Sundance as producer, composer 2013-01-19T16:33:09Z

He is not, however, his country’s best loved composer. Europe concert diary: Harrison Birtwistle at the Proms 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

All Around, a Tapestry of Sound “For each piece I want to create the material and the interrelationship of the intervals anew,” the prominent Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer has said about his life’s work. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z

Ironically, the composer's cautionary tale of technological hubris is crammed with technology. COT cues robots for digital age opera 2011-03-27T14:38:00Z

They include an aristocrat’s son on a trans-Atlantic journey, a grieving composer and a writer visiting Earth from her interstellar colony while on her book tour. 18 New Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

But even if the film studio doesn’t come calling, Riew is optimistic Shimcheong will live on after she graduates and embarks on a career as a musical composer and lyricist. Harvard senior’s Disney-inspired Korean musical a hit online 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The text for “Zohar” — a pillar of Jewish mysticism, the composer suggests — is a commentary upon the Five Books of Moses, here presented as six movements reflecting on the nature of man, Judaism and life. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

She has also started to make her mark as a bandleader and composer, with albums on Mr. Douglas’s Greenleaf Music. Jazz Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Some countries make a point of targeting their commissioning largess toward their own composers. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

“And that’s the way it is for me. It’s not an extra sidebar of what I do as a composer. It’s a major component of my work.” Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

A sixth will launch in January in Puerto Rico, where the composer’s family has roots. Review | ‘Hamilton’ opens in Washington, and it’s a worthy successor to Broadway  2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The current Met season, like the last, has no female composers, no female conductors, and no female directors in charge of new productions. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

With this work, the composer was “trying to find those dead people and souls to wake them up with special sounds and gestures and colors.” Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

If the show works, the composer and lyricist will be showered in glory, or maybe the director and choreographer. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z

Orchestras are among composers’ favorite purveyors of fantasy. Fall preview: From ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ to ‘Dragon Rhyme,’ fantasy resounds in D.C.

When programming a recital most singers include a range of works in different languages by a variety of composers. Music Review: Alice Coote Presents an Evening of French Art Songs 2014-01-31T21:25:00Z

This is an ensemble of performers who are also the composers and arrangers of the music they perform, musicians who are committed to Ma’s vision of music as a bridge between cultures. Silk Road Ensemble transports Wolf Trap audience across the world 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

“The goal of the society is that in 10 years, people will recognize Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bartok and Weinberg as the most important composers of the 20th century,” he said. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The chamber chorus, a subgroup of 28 singers, sang the New York premiere of three lively, engaging and lighthearted “Shakespeare Songs” by the composer Matthew Harris. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z

The film, a documentary about this iconoclastic musician and composer, is rich in archival footage that shows Zappa being interviewed by broadcast journalists of all sorts. Review: ‘Eat That Question,’ on Frank Zappa, the Media and Cultural Upheavals 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

And the soundtrack: it’s one of cinema’s greatest composers delivering one of cinema’s greatest scores. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

The first movement, which moves from contemplation to anger, comes to a climax with the pianist hitting the keys with his forearms, an old California composer trick. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hogwood had a particular affinity for Mendelssohn and was scheduled to conduct the composer’s “Elijah” in March 2015 with the Handel and Haydn Society. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Set to music by Franz Schubert, as arranged and orchestrated by the composer and Schubert scholar Richard Burke, it is also her first ballet with children. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

But while One Day, the Sinfonieta's collaboration with Matthew Herbert was light on content, the London debut of Secret Society, led by composer Darcy James Argue, was a contender for gig of the year. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society; London Sinfonieta/Matthew Herbert 2010-11-21T22:45:00Z

Perlman seemed on the same wavelength as the composer as he developed the imaginative ideas in the simple theme, a brief repeated phrase often just on one note with changing harmony. A night of masterful grace with violinist Itzhak Perlman 2012-02-23T17:32:54Z

In between its Broadway run and now, the show has been seen in an immersive production in Barcelona and its composer, Tom Kitt, has written a handful of other Broadway musicals. Review: ‘Next to Normal’ Is Back, With Extra Pathos 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

The workshop allows composers and librettists to see how a live audience responds to their work, which will be performed by Industry singers alongside wild Up musicians performing as a 20-piece chamber orchestra. The Industry, wild Up to workshop new operas at 'First Take' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Later in the evening is a premiere from the young composer Gabriella Smith. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

“Instead of asking one composer to write a 90-minute work,” says Barry, “what if we were asking a number of composers to write shorter works that were very specifically responding to 2020?” Perspective | Opera is taking entirely new forms. Its survival may depend on it. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Darius Milhaud was an assiduous composer, at times perhaps too assiduous for his own good. Review: A 20th-Century Sequel to ‘Barber of Seville’ and ‘Figaro’ 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

And there is a concept at work, for Ms. Harms draws a parallel to the composer. Muisc: Rare Glimpses of Traetta's 'Antigona' and Strauss's 'Danae' 2011-02-01T12:30:03Z

Listening to Wagner requires some preparation, partly because of the works' length but also because, more than most opera composers, Wagner's operas are about ideas, not just stories. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

On the other is Boulez Hall, named for the French composer and conductor who was close to both Barenboim and Gehry and who died last year at age 90. Frank Gehry's jewel-box new concert hall in the heart of Berlin 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

After all, Mozart’s socially abrasive comic operas, in which the upper class is undone by servants, started the tradition of composers biting the bourgeois hands that feed them. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The opera house and the composer were circumspect about why the project, which was more than a decade in the making, had been called off. Osvaldo Golijov’s New Opera for the Met is Called Off 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

"Of course, I haven't seen the script," the composer told The Hollywood Reporter. Star Wars: Episode VII to limit cheap CGI tricks and keep it real 2013-07-29T11:47:40Z

The young Mr. Fessenden is credited as writer, director, actor, editor and composer; he put the movie together with the help of friends, props found on Craigslist and his father’s small production company. Review: Juggling ‘Stray Bullets’ and Homework 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Beethoven’s performance of a Mozart sonata fails to impress its composer, who suddenly urges Beethoven to improvise. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic celebrates its iconic former music director with the festival “Bernstein’s Philharmonic,” which will include performances of the composer’s complete orchestral works. Your Week in Culture: Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Bernstein and Crime Scene Dioramas 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The International Contemporary Ensemble certainly did for Alvin Lucier’s “Chambers,” a work for an unspecified array of “instruments” collected and assembled according to the composer’s instructions. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Tactically speaking, this was recognizably the territory of the Argentine bandleader Guillermo Klein, who presides over Bienestan as its resident composer and arranger. Music Review: Where Hearing the Parts Whirl Is the Point 2011-08-19T21:33:35Z

The Crossing,” by the prodigiously talented composer Matthew Aucoin, who also wrote the libretto, tells of Walt Whitman’s volunteer work treating wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview, composer Cooper said he had yet to see the show — having gone on a long European tour with his hip-hop band that began before "Recorded in Hollywood" opened. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

After 35 years of playing for hundreds of moviegoers, the composer and pianist Steve Sterner still gets excited about playing for the crowds at Film Forum. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

He is scheduled to return to Mr. Harbison, by way of the Symphony No. 1, in November, when he also plans to lead Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, part of a celebration of that composer’s bicentenary. James Levine?s Health at Issue in Plans for Boston Season 2010-04-11T18:40:00Z

Its drawing cards are accomplished new-music performers — among them this year, the Arditti Quartet, Signal and Ensemble SurPlus — playing works by established composers. Music: June in Buffalo Celebrates 35th Anniversary 2010-06-04T21:58:00Z

Robert Shaw, who was America’s foremost conductor of choral music, called him the greatest art-song composer of his time. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

The show will focus on directors, actors, writers and composers who fled Nazi rule in Europe and found work in the American movie industry. LACMA to present exhibition on German Expressionist cinema 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Rameau was a major French composer of opera and harpsichord music from the Baroque era. SBO conductor candidate Kevin Mallon leads Bach cantatas 2014-03-19T19:52:56Z

On Tuesday night at Curve Line Space, an art gallery in Eagle Rock, the program featured nine pieces by composers from the Icelandic collective known by the acronym SLÁTUR. Dog Star Orchestra joyfully ventures out of bounds 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

One student wrote in that their favorite music is by the composer Beethoven! October’s Class of KidsPost: Silverbrook fifth-graders 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Q: How many of you in the quartet are composers? Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z

He wasn’t thinking about a career in music back then, he said, even though he went on to be a composer, arranger and producer. Herb Alpert and Lani Hall aim to bring joy to Seattle’s Triple Door 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

"The state is very important in learning and consolidating information," said the composer, who consulted with neurological experts. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

These two Hungarian composers were close friends and shared early teachers and mentors, but their careers turned out very differently. Music Review: Bargemusic, With the Pianists Olga Vinokur and David Kalhous 2012-02-21T22:52:30Z

Now 66, Sciarrino is firmly established as one of the leading European composers of our time. Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z

David Lang, the composer, wrote an essay on NYTimes.com last month describing the reverence for the past that classical music lovers and baseball fans share. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z

But to Mr Brownlow, his piano teacher and a would-be composer living alone with his Austrian refugee mother, the boy is a mixture of muse, playmate and object of desire. Review 2010-06-01T23:29:00Z

Pop veteran Sting debuted at No. 6 with "Symphonicities," an album's worth of Sting and Police songs classically reinvented by noted composers and performed with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Eminem leads U.S. album and singles charts 2010-07-21T20:11:00Z

The Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, an avid film buff, once said that he loved movies because he experienced them as music. Music Review: Movies as a Form of Music 2010-12-19T22:31:25Z

Along with designer Paul Wills and composer Adam Cork, Ashford swathes the play in nautical realism. Anna Christie ? review 2011-08-09T22:12:00Z

A quietly plaintive score by the composer Tamar-kali provides rooted resonance to this investigative and intimate work of belonging. ‘After Sherman’ Review: A Family Reckoning 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

But when a composer did write abstract music, it was often seen as too derivative of European models. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

The multi-award winning composer and lyricist said he felt both "flattered and gratified". Stephen Sondheim honoured in US 2013-08-12T09:39:51Z

Within that idea, Jolley adds, the three composers find extraordinary variety. Seattle Modern Orchestra explores 'Layers of Time' 2012-01-26T21:19:04Z

“I do think that composers inherit a kind of acoustic.” His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Golijov, the CSO's former composer in residence, took his title from a book by the astronomer Galileo that includes observations about the moon. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

It will be the orchestra’s first collaboration with Bang on a Can, a 26-year-old composers’ collective born of an expansive, uncompromising aesthetic in some ways antithetical to the Philharmonic’s conventional sphere. New York Philharmonic Offers Details on 2014 Biennial 2013-05-29T19:00:01Z

“Eurydice” is a beguiling tour of the underworld and an arresting tour de force from a composer clearly hitting his stride. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Dutch Composer and Pupils Mix Styles During the Classical period composers hewed to certain common precepts and rules; the fledgling , however bold, initially adhered to a Haydn-inspired model. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z

Lyadov, a St. Petersburg Conservatory teacher who taught Prokofiev, incorporated sections of an unfinished opera into the piece, reflecting some of his greatest strengths as a composer, i.e., orchestral color and impression. Chorale, violist to join SSO for water works 2013-03-27T21:08:35Z

The point is that against every imaginable and available odd, composers and performers persisted, pandemic notwithstanding. Perspective | Best classical music of 2020: The Met Opera’s nightly streams, ‘Blue,’ ‘Wagnerism’ and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

The organization grew from Ms. Nourbakhsh’s idea to arrange a concert featuring music by Iranian female composers. Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

That notion runs through Renaissance theater, and the music for “Phantasmagoria” comes from anonymous Renaissance composers. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z

The vast majority of the 19th century's most important conductors were also its composers: Mendelssohn, who revived Bach's St Matthew Passion for audiences in Leipzig, Berlioz, Weber, Liszt, and, above all, Wagner. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

The concert, featuring work from some of Europe's greatest composers, will be filmed for a national public TV special. Rick Steves gives $1M to arts in Edmonds 2011-08-26T03:09:03Z

One of the most celebrated film composers of his generation, Barry scored more than 90 movies over the course of his career. Obituary 2011-01-31T12:25:26Z

When I profiled the composer and pianist Anthony Davis in May, before Detroit Opera’s revival of his 1986 bio-opera about Malcolm X, no recordings of this music were in print. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

People don't know that Honegger was one of the most prolific film composers in history. All hail Joan of Arc, in music -- but in London? 2011-11-03T11:31:03Z

A Broadway theater renamed for the composer of "Company," "Follies," "Sweeney Todd" and other memorable shows. A Broadway theater is renamed for Stephen Sondheim 2010-03-23T01:34:00Z

Now 77, he remains defined by his sideman work, though his ambitious works as a bandleader and composer has helped connect anarchic avant-gardism with a vast historical family of music from America, Europe and Africa. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Often composers who write for film don’t have to think about the pacing and proportions that characterize concert music. But James has a grasp of these elements that really stands out.” Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

"But we were both word men and Bob had a big influence on the music too. So it's not that I was the composer and he was the lyricist." Mary Poppins singalong at the Proms 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The composer is Japanese and the director is Chinese, while the lead singers are Korean and perform in German. Production reflects Spoleto's international flavor 2013-06-08T18:29:08Z

When the composer Tania León was 9, her piano teacher, traveling in France, sent a postcard back to Cuba with a picture of the Eiffel Tower. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

So he preceded the Beethoven with works by composers representing three generations of contemporary music in Quebec. Music Review: Montreal Symphony at La Maison Symphonique - Review 2011-09-08T22:00:33Z

Program A does commemorate a centennial, that of the composer Lou Harrison. Review: Mark Morris’s Egalitarian Ethos and Top-Class Art 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The creation of brilliant music counterpoints the tormented amorous lives of three prominent composers in “Fugue,” Echo Theater Company’s edgy historically based meditation on genius, sexual obsession and betrayal. A different kind of fugue state by Echo Theater Company 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Czech composer had come to America to teach but also to listen, and what he heard astonished and stimulated his imagination. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

It sounds like you want a role in choosing the composers. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Only two years later, Friedman, its protean composer, died at 41 of complications from AIDS. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

“Doctor Atomic,” an opera that may be better heard than seen, shines more than ever in this recording, conducted by its composer. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Lane, the composer’s widow, said she liked some of Mr. Mayer’s ideas right away, like importing several Lane songs from the film “Royal Wedding” for Melinda, who is now a singer from the 1940s. Theater: ?On a Clear Day? Now Centers on the Psychiatrist 2011-11-27T05:27:19Z

More recently, the pianist and composer Michael Brown wrote “Surfaces” after studying the abstract art of the pianist and painter Roman Rabinovich. Review: Roman Rabinovich Brings Melody to His Art, at Walter Reade Theater 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

One of the hazardous facts of life for a film composer is that the music is usually the final element to be realised. What I'm thinking about ... conducting Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 2013-03-06T13:28:05Z

In 1974, Davis, a classically trained bassoonist and composer, was living in Omaha, Nebraska, and writing jingles for Bozell & Jacobs, a local advertising agency. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

That a figure like Fine carefully navigated Neo-Classicism and serialism, the twin specters of European modernism, is no indictment of American composers’ originality. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s an apt concept for the group, whose virtuosic players offer composers an ever-expanding sonic palette, and in whose hands a flute or cello may sound as unfamiliar and surprising as a shamisen. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The same might be said for "West Side Story," but Bernstein's pinnacle achievement as a musical theater composer cries out to be seen as well as heard. 'Candide' is revisited in a playfully imaginative staging by Long Beach Opera 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

He also is a composer, with several songs in one of the books used at the Old Alabama Town event. Shape note singers keep American tradition alive 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The current Bond composer, David Arnold, paid one of many tributes to Barry. John Barry, Bond films' man with the golden tunes, dies aged 77 2011-01-31T21:49:36Z

Nobody talks about the nationality of other composers as much as they talk about Elgar being English; of course, there is a certain Englishness about it, but it’s not the most important element. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams, born in 1953 and one of the more original American composers of his generation, has found ways to combine his passions for music and for nature. Music Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Inuksuit’ at Ojai Music Festival 2012-06-08T21:08:54Z

Feldman's "indeterminate" music has more in common with the open-ended colour fields of abstract painting than it does with the melodic linear structures of more traditional composers of the time. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Two years later, he produced Mr. De Palma’s comic drama about a disfigured composer who sells his soul, “Phantom of the Paradise,” which has become a cult favorite. Edward R. Pressman, Film Producer Who Boosted Many Careers, Dies at 79 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

He was a founder of the jazz group the Lounge Lizards, a prolific TV and film composer and an actor in landmark indie films like Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise” and “Down by Law.” John Lurie Doesn’t Paint Happy Trees 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

He also reveals his priorities as a composer and listener: the "magnetism" he hears in every note or combination of notes he plays on the piano or puts down on manuscript paper. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

But the British composers represented here, covering five centuries, all chose distinguished texts and responded with extraordinary music. Classical Playlist: 'Poetry in Music' and Gilles Vonsattel 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

“We’ve been invisible,” the composer T. J. Anderson declared, almost immediately after answering the phone for an interview. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Played in succession in the concert’s first half, works by those composers proved that “Latin American” is useless as an indication of style. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra Presents ‘Border Vanguards’ 2014-04-07T20:43:21Z

“I think that there’s a huge sea change happening in America now,” he added, referencing the Metropolitan Opera’s recent commitment to staging more operas by living composers. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

There are moments in the works when you wonder: 'Could this composer have become another Shostakovich or Stravinsky?' Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

During a 1976 lecture at Harvard University, the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein said, “A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them.” Venice Film Festival: All Your Questions About Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ Answered 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

When you hear young composers doing this now do you think, “I’ve been doing this all along”? Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z

Grazinyte-Tyla  has already proved herself a crackling Beethovenian in the composer’s Seventh Symphony. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

It is about the impact of selected artists' sound on some of the most interesting and respected young composers in the world. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

She was just 16, but already famous as a composer and virtuosic performer. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

At the Gewandhaus, where Nelsons is the music director, she is the featured composer through next season. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

This adaptation, set in contemporary times, opened with Part 2 of Verdi’s work, which the composer subtitled “The Gypsy.” Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

“I think he didn’t mean this, but it came out of his mouth. He said, ‘Are there really 100 women composers?’” It Was Hard to Find Sheet Music by Women Jazz Artists. So She Fixed It. 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

He wasn’t the first composer to use it in an orchestral piece, but he was the first person to give it a massive solo. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The studio instead offered a settlement, which the composer took. ‘Stanley Kubrick’s Sound Odyssey’ takes audience on an adventure through the auteur’s classical selections 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The final programme of their 2012-13 season included two new quartet arrangements, one by the group's artistic director, Jonathan Morton, the other by English composer David Matthews. Scottish Ensemble – review 2013-06-11T12:51:42Z

One of von Otter’s early recording successes was a 1993 CD of songs by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, not usually a bestseller. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the early years of the program, the MacArthur Foundation made a point of singling out some unapologetically modernist composers who had scant interest in stylistic crossbreeding, like Milton Babbitt, Ralph Shapey and Charles Wuorinen. Critic's Notebook: Classical Music?s ?Genius? Grant Recipients Pause to Reflect 2011-10-03T15:54:59Z

Like Wayne Shorter — to whom his newest album, “Absence,” is dedicated — Terence Blanchard is the rare jazz star whose renown as a composer almost overshadows his reputation as a daring and stylish improviser. Listen to the Essential Terence Blanchard 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky objected to composers who, as he put it, took the opera house into the church. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z

An accomplished composer, Prestini views National Sawdust as an accelerator for new work, giving artists the time and space to create. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

I decided, therefore, to write a combined review of two world premieres by composers with burgeoning national profiles. Perspective | Why we didn’t review ‘The Barber of Seville’ and other concerts 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Soprano soloist Helen Boatwright, who championed the performance of American song and recorded the first full-length album of songs by composer Charles Ives, has died. Pioneering soprano Helen Boatwright dies at 94 2010-12-02T21:07:00Z

Explore Vivaldi's beloved "Four Seasons" in the symphony's second Beyond the Score program, which includes a multimedia presentation of the life and times of a composer and the performance of a famous work. The Week Ahead: Morcheeba's on The Seattle Times' list of A&E highlights 2011-02-24T00:39:04Z

The composer Ted Hearne said that he no longer gives his works lowercase titles because he does not believe simply liking the way they looked was a good enough reason to justify it. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

He plays 14 fugues by composers from two generations of the high Baroque. Classical Playlist: Christiane Karg, Alan Feinberg and More 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

At a press launch for the new season, one reporter challenged the institution over the programme, noting that almost half of the performances stemmed from three composers - Verdi, Puccini and Rossini. Woolf ballet set for Royal Opera 2014-03-31T13:18:38Z

Ukrainian composers at the turn of the century, many of them rooted in the Russian Orthodox choral tradition, wrote more for choir than any other ensemble. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

As with the composer, however, there is more to Mr. Heginbotham than comic animation. Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham Presents ‘Manhattan Research’ 2013-08-09T20:14:42Z

Ms. Baum brings a remarkable balance of fluidity and restless creativity to her work as a postbop flutist and composer. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

He was one of the Habsburg court's favorite composers, and is perhaps best remembered in popular culture as Mozart's chief rival. Italians seek return of Salieri's remains 2013-01-29T20:16:03Z

Her coordination was also a relief in “Contested Space,” Mr. Byrd’s monotonous arrangement of solos and pas de deux set to music by the Brazilian electronic composer Amon Tobin. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z

The beloved Greek composer whose rousing music and life of political defiance won acclaim abroad and inspired millions at home. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

He was the first violinist of the Prince of Wales’s band; the organist and composer Samuel Wesley wrote that Bridgetower was “justly ranked with the very first masters of the violin.” The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Considering the grim sentiment, Petra said she was surprised the composers hadn't written the song in a moodier minor key. The Haden Triplets see folk as part of their musical DNA 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mitchell has also been working recently on a sequel to “Hedwig” but said it is on hold for now as he and the show’s composer, Stephen Trask, have been busy with other projects. John Cameron Mitchell to Return as Star of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

We have some of the most esteemed classical composers having been commissioned by us. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

But his mother arranged an audition with Frank Loesser, the composer of “Guys and Dolls” and other shows, who recommended a songwriting career. Jerry Herman, Composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and Other Broadway Hits, Dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

"Mr Eötvös's success," gushed the New York Times of a 2006 Boston production, "outstrips that of most American composers in his ability to fit music to the flow of American English." Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

Junior Orchestra, which performed pieces by the Black composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Stewart Goodyear, as well as a Tchaikovsky symphony. A European Music Festival’s Push for Diversity Stirs Debate 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

When the composer Joan Tower went to Bennington College to study music, her teachers told her she needed to compose something. At 80, Joan Tower Says Great Music Comes ‘in the Risks’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

In February, on the night of this year’s Grammy Awards, the pianist, producer and composer Robert Glasper was enjoying himself in the audience at the Microsoft Theater when he realized he didn’t have his phone. Robert Glasper Leans Into the Drama 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

For the second half, a recent percussion concerto by an established French composer set the stage for Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The board chairwoman and Chen described Freeman as a visionary who inspired countless musicians, soloists, composers, patrons and audience members of color to become involved in classical music. A baton is passed and a legacy is celebrated 2011-05-24T16:49:15Z

As it all came together, Kyle Werner, composer of the sonata for violin and piano that inspired the dance, was looking at a monitor under a production tent, overwhelmed. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

A writer, composer and lyricist as well as an actor, he was the author of four novels and a handful of stage shows. Ron Moody, Actor Best Known as Fagin in ‘Oliver!’, Dies at 91 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

In 1979, a book purporting to be Shostakovich’s memoir, entitled “Testimony,” appeared in the West, depicting a frustrated composer who despised Communism and hid veiled critiques of the Soviet regime in his music. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Countess Madeleine, a young widow who lives in a chateau outside Paris with her brother, the Count, is being courted by the composer Flamand and the poet Olivier. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z

Perhaps for that reason national identity – a mainstay of European romantic music – is still working its way through the psyche of US composers. USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review 2013-01-27T00:08:04Z

There are puzzling omissions — the composers he chooses tend to be white and male — but Mr. Thomas’s efforts have nevertheless been essential to keeping in the repertory works by singular, often overlooked voices. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Just what criteria were used to select and order the composers and artists who appeared in Music of Now, held on Saturday afternoon and evening, went unrevealed. Music Review: Music of Now Marathon Begins Composers Now Series 2013-02-05T23:12:21Z

But the Alphadyne money allowed it to build out a digital platform, commission work from 100 artists, give 20 composers $3,000 commissions and put on workshops and master classes. They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

“We can’t control the actions of composers hundreds of years ago,” she said. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

"He wanted to work with an up-and-coming American composer in his first season here, especially since one of his artistic goals is to present the future of American music to the local audiences." Seattle Symphony premieres Nico Muhly work 2012-01-23T19:12:04Z

The score is by the German composer Torsten Rasch, who has written the music for 40 films but never an opera – until now. The Duchess of Malfi; La traviata 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

Such early conflicts may have informed his emphasis on the indignities supposedly suffered by American composers. He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Seattle Chamber Music Society commissioned a new work by prominent film composer James Newton Howard — and it's a winner. Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Five box sets of CDs and DVDs have come out, or are about to, that contain the vast majority of Boulez's recordings as composer and conductor. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, the composer ingeniously weaves their rich, glowing sonorities into the sumptuous orchestral fabric. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z