What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...
“There’s this precious moment when it’s just you and the piece,” says Anthony K. Brandt, an assistant professor of music at Rice University. “I’d rather dwell on that moment,” he says, than on, say, a ...
Since the appearance of jazz in the early 20th century, jazz and classical have mostly lived on opposite sides of town, separated by tracks that most listeners won’t cross. This has long remained the ...
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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 pianist who spent 25 years writing pop hits says he's long been interested in the work of Charles Ives, Arnold Schoenberg and others. Now he's... Bruce Hornsby's Modern Classical Moment Bruce ...
Barrie Gavin: instead of attempting to illustrate music literally, he found visual equivalents with a beauty of their own - Dmitri N. Smirnov Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific ...
Last month at Royal Albert Hall, a capacity audience of 6,000 cheered and applauded wildly at the European premiere of Scottish composer James MacMillan's stirring Third Symphony. A few days later, ...
The crowd that welcomed the Skaneateles High School orchestra home after NYSSMA last month only knew part of the happy story. The cheering fans gathered to meet the bus because they knew that the ...
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