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 ...

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Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...

Charlotte Sohy is hardly a household name, but she’s a great story. If Texas Medical Center Orchestra conductor and artistic director Libi Lebel has anything to say about it, the days of the early ...

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 ...

A song pamphlet titled "Songs" by Alice Barnett, published by G. Schirmer Inc., featuring compositions by the early 20th-century American composer. Alice Barnett's music once echoed across America — ...

New Series Launches with 1951 Academy Award-Nominated Best Original Song “A Kiss To Build A Dream On” & 1961 Academy Award-Winning Best Original Song “Moon River.” Now Available on Bandcamp & Coming ...

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 ...

So I know John Cale, John Cage, Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Brian Eno, etc.<BR><BR>But who's _your_ favorite avant composer and what's your favorite piece? I'm doing a DJ night at a local coffee house ...