While he explored every other avenue of musical composition including chamber music concertos and symphonies Johannes Brahms never ventured into opera Still many critics hold him solely responsible ...
The PostClassical Ensemble is making you an offer you can’t refuse. Next week, the group will perform a pair of concerts in Washington, D.C, and Baltimore featuring the orchestral works of the most ...
Born in 1923, Gyorgy Ligeti was known to be one of the most influential, innovative, and progressive composers of the latter half of the 20th century. Ligeti was especially passionate about ...
Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness ...
Composer-centered stories make for great movies. Whether we can attribute it to the enduring power of their work – "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" as we approach Halloween, Tchaikovsky’s cannonfire in ...
Overlooked women composers are finally given their due as Wakkerstroom’s 2026 festival spotlights music long sidelined by history and patriarchy ...