Gustavo Dudamel and James Conlon Exit L.A.
When Dudamel was announced as Salonen’s successor at the L.A. Phil, in 2007, he was only twenty-six, and aglow with ...
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Sublime Fury at the Ojai Festival
Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in Gabriella Smith’s ...
Morton Feldman’s Music of Stillness
Feldman’s hundredth birthday was on January 12th. Little is being done on his behalf in New York City, where he ...
Vocal Resistance at the New York Festival of Song
We began in the world that was—in the humid atmosphere of fin-de-siècle Vienna, from which Zemlinsky, Schreker, and Schoenberg emerged. ...
Abu Gosh fest in full bloom
This year’s festival will feature around 30 concerts and musical events, blending tradition and innovation.The Abu Gosh Festival returns this ...
The Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons
How does a singular musical personality emerge from an agglomeration of pitches? The characteristic quirks of major composers are easily ...
