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 ...
West Chester was home to Samuel Barber, who is considered by many to be the greatest musical composer of the 20th century, ...
Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the ...
Have you ever been to a familiar restaurant where one night all the different flavors on the plate seemed fresh and the whole dinner was a joyous voyage of discovery? Well, that’s what it was like ...
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 ...
How Hindustani vocalist Narayanrao Vyas became a record-breaking superstar in the early 20th century
In an era when many musicians resisted new tech, Vyas embraced it to bring Hindustani classical music into the homes of millions.
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 ...
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 ...
Rightly or wrongly, classical music is viewed by many people as something that is not for them. It could be the perceived ‘rules’ of the concert hall or the expectation that you need specialist ...
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