Conrad Tao is one of the most compelling musicians on the classical scene. A talented pianist and composer, he also has the ...
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
While male composers get all the credit in classic music, there have been many trailblazing women who have made music history. Though many did not get the attention they deserved, there are plenty of ...
Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan, a grand opera composed in 1887 by Edmond Dédé, a black, free-born New Orleans native based ...
Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.
How about the Hans Zimmer “bwong” sound in a national anthem? It could happen, with reports coming out of Saudi Arabia that ...
Serious realisation of the seven often thorny Martinů string quartets is a major undertaking. When I spoke to Veronika ...
Sound was integral to his lush, haunting cinematic vision, beginning with his 1977 art-house classic Eraserhead and right up through his final film, Inland Empire, in 2006. Lynch co-wrote and ...
A Five Year Old Prodigy (1930) Notably, Slenczynska is considered to be composer-pianist Sergei Rachmaninov’s last living pupil. It is thought that the young pianist even once stepped in for the great ...
At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires. The sheet music was kept at his family's music ...