Sir Roger Norrington, the English conductor identified for traditionally knowledgeable performances, handed away final Friday, July 18. He was 91.…
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Composed by Charles Ives in 1906, The Pond is a shimmering, atmospheric fragment, or, within the phrases of the composer, “a tune…
The music of Alan Hovhaness, one in all America’s most prolific composers, enchants together with his signature synthesis of East…
The impetus for Sergei Prokofiev’s First String Quartet got here from America. In 1930, Prokofiev acquired the fee from the…
From his teenage years in Bonn till the tip of his life, Beethoven composed piano bagatelles. These temporary, unpretentious items,…
When the February Revolution of 1917 broke out in Petrograd, Sergei Prokofiev resettled in the USA, stating that his native…
Maybe because of his turbulent private struggles, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was drawn to tales of doomed love. It’s a theme…
“The all too acquainted hymns of my childhood have come again to hang-out me,” wrote American composer Ingram Marshall (1942-2022)…
On September 14, 1814, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the Royal Navy in the course of the…
Composer/poet Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. He went on to develop into a number…