With their sense of serene detachment, hypnotic repeating rhythms, and harmonic stasis, Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopédies opened the door to a…
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Florence Value’s abiding curiosity within the literary arts helps clarify the terribly giant variety of vocal compositions in her catalogue…
The critic Claude Rostand famously noticed, “In Poulenc there’s something of the monk and one thing of the rascal.” We…
Nathan Milstein (1903-1992) was one of the crucial elegant and innately gifted violinists of the 20th century. The biographer Boris…
Right this moment marks the centennial of the start of Canadian jazz virtuoso pianist and composer Oscar Peterson (1925-2007). Herbie…
The rhythmic sample of animal and human motion fashioned the inspiration for Gait, a 2012 orchestral tone poem by American…
Collected to be used within the chapel of Cambridge College’s Peterhouse faculty within the 1630s and hidden through the Civil…
Giuseppe Verdi’s 1849 opera, Luisa Miller, broke new floor. With a tragic, convoluted story centering round love, betrayal, class battle, jealous…
Composed in 1797, the Trio in B-flat Main, Op. 11 is spirited, fun-loving music of the 26 yr previous Beethoven.…
In 2001, a protracted misplaced work by Handel was miraculously found. The manuscript for Handel’s Gloria in excelsis Deo had been…