There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...
In the spring of 1967, Tania León won the lottery. Her reward wasn't any cash prize — instead, the 24-year-old budding pianist boarded an airplane just east of her native Havana, bound for Miami. León ...
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Hildegard von Bingen was a saint, an abbess, a mystic, a pioneering composer and is now an opera
L.A. Opera presents the world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's 'Hildegard,' about the mystical 12th century ...
For the composers chosen to participate, among the nearly 200 who apply each year, the concert was the culmination of an intense multi-day immersion into the artistic life of an orchestra. During a ...
Safe at home this spring has not necessarily meant sane at home. One antidote is a mega-dose of Erik Satie. The French composer’s most beguiling and languidly becalming piano pieces, particularly the ...
Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov almost didn't make it out of his hometown of Kyiv at the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion. First, his daughter had to convince him to escape to safety; ...
VARIETY: Is there a good case to be made that Steiner’s music for “King Kong” in 1933 is the most important film score of all time? SMITH: I think there’s no greater way to turn someone off something ...
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