ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
John Adams's new memoir, Hallelujah Junction, reads like a gentle repudiation of the idea, popular at mid-century, that audience approval is irrelevant to classical music. "He knew at once, he says, that atonality, far from being the promised land that Schoenberg and Babbitt had predicted, was a dead end."...
Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The alleged fusion of contemporary and classical music has been a noticeable, if somewhat subtle, force over the past several years. For me, the first time I recalled an artist blatantly mentioning the mixture as an intentional component in his own work was when previously featured German composer Max Richter proudly used the tag “post-classical” [...]
Mavi Boncuk (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
A face on the new Turkish currency Mavi Boncuk Buhurizade Itri, or just simply Itri (1640? - 1711) was a composer and performer of Turkish classical music from Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Many things known about him today are subject to dispute. His real name was Mustafa, and he was sometimes referred to as Buhurizade Mustafa Efendi. Itri was a major exponent of Turkish classical music, much in the same...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Francine Stock talks about Visionaries and Western classical music composers
University of Chicago News Office (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
For 10 days in October, the University will become one of the centers of the classical music universe, as some of the world's leading musicians and scholars converge on Hyde Park to honor a composer who is a giant in 20th-century music, yet unfamiliar to some: Oliv ...
Notes from a Defeatist (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
4: Don't write for the Arditti Quartet Let me make this clear right from the off: I've got no beef with the Arditti Quartet . They're an astonishing ensemble, who've brought some extraordinary music to life, and they and their contribution to so-called contemporary classical music (SCCCM) can't really be over-estimated. They reach heights of virtuosity that few if any other groups can, and when Stockhausen...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The 54-year-old founder of the wildly successful choir The Sixteen wants to bring America's oldest performing arts organization back to its roots. "The Handel and Haydn Society is a great brand name. You've got two of the great composers of Baroque and Classical music. Let's concentrate on those two people. We don't really need to go beyond those boundaries."...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
BURBANK, CA (MARKET WIRE) Unfinished anything is never any good. For example, two legendary classical music composers, Beethoven and Schumann, both left behind unfinished symphonies. Music lovers the world over wish they could have heard what should have been the final strains of those works -- for we'll never know to what aesthetic heights we might have been lifted. In Beethoven's case, his "unfinished"...
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Relax everyone. Close down the music blogs, grab back that money from Alex and cancel those new music commissions. The BBC has saved classical music and the Telegraph has the scoop - 'BBC's Maestro sends Beethoven sales soaring ... Symphony No 5 in C minor was first performed by the composer in 1808 but 200 years on it has been revived for a modern audience after rapper Goldie and comedian Sue Perkins...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Composers have been marrying elements of jazz and classical music for a century with drastically uneven results. The aesthetic bliss promised by the union is too seductive for many composers to ignore, but the challenge is daunting. So if you're Wynton Marsalis, you seek advice from a master. When Marsalis finished his 1999 oratorio "All Rise" for orchestra, jazz band and chorus, he shared the score...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Tanglewood Lennox, Massachusetts August 29-31, 2008 Tanglewood, the venerable Lenox, Massachusetts, music facility, is renowned for classical music and has been the home for many of the great composers and conductors over the years. But the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival has carved out its own reputation for bringing exciting and eclectic music to the stage each year over...
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
German-Argentine contemporary classical music composer Mauricio Kagel has died in Cologne, at the age of 76. He is best remembered as a leading figure of the city's Electronic Music Studio.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Cologne, Germany - Mauricio Kagel, an Argentinian-born composer, died early Thursday in Cologne, Germany at the age of 76. Kagel's 200 works of contemporary classical music dispensed with harmony and singable melodies and were aimed at high-brows, wh...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The Morris + King Company 101 Fifth Avenue, 212-561-7450 Flat Iron / Gramercy September 24 - December 9, 2008 Opening: Tuesday, September 23, 6 - 8PM Web Site Acclaimed artist Chuck Close and contemporary artist Devorah Sperber pay homage to legendary classical music composer Philip Glass in the inaugural multimedia exhibition of (Le) Poisson Rouge, the highly anticipated arts cabaret founded by musicians...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
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