An unusual musical program was presented in New York City recently, a rare opportunity to hear some of the songs of German composer Hanns Eisler (1898-1962). The program, entitled “Will There Still Be ...
The 20th century was a time of musical revolutions and innovations. Composers searched for new harmonies, rhythms and forms. What doors are left to kick open this century? Precious few. With no ...
The first time that pianist Sara Davis Buechner felt what she calls "the real spiritual power" of George Gershwin's music, she was 23 and building a reputation for virtuoso playing on the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New York City Charter School of the Arts (CSA) co-founder, Artistic Director, and ...
Music by Edmund Thornton Jenkins, an early 20th-century Charleston-born Black classical composer, is being brought to light for the first time almost 100 years after his death. Colour of Music ...
Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...
What happens when a 20th-century composer tips his hat to a 17th-century gentleman? You get Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un gentilhombre—a suite of graceful dances, dazzling guitar solos, and timeless ...
James Conlon, the veteran L.A. Opera music director and conductor, is well versed in the canon of 20th century classics. But over the last several decades, he has been focused on another kind of ...
The successful Pro Musica Hebraica series opens its sixth season featuring the Ariel Quartet and pianist Orion Weiss. The program explores the largely forgotten works of Jewish composers Erich ...