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San Francisco Opera Commissions Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne
Jan. 31, 2012The venerable San Francisco Opera has announced the commission of Tobias Picker’s next opera, Dolores Claiborne, with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name …
Friedrich Cerha Receives 2012 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize; Luke Bedford Earns Composers' Prize
Jan. 31, 2012Many congratulations to Friedrich Cerha, recipient of the 2012 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. One of the most prestigious awards in music with a €200,000 cash prize, the Siemens Prize …
Central Park in the Dark at Chicago, London, Manchester, Graz
Jan. 23, 2012Written in 1906 when the composer lived in an apartment near New York’s famous Central Park, Charles Ives’ orchestral work Central Park in the Dark describes a night time walk …
92nd Street Y Presents The Culture of Terezín
Jan. 12, 2012From January 9 through February 16, New York City's 92nd Street Y presents The Will to Create, The Will to Live: The Culture of Terezín , a singular in-depth multi-disciplinary series …
Weill and Brecht's Mahagonny debuts at Vienna Staatsoper
Jan. 12, 2012On January 24 the Vienna Staatsoper premieres its first majorproduction of a work by Kurt Weillwith Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, directed by Jérôme Deschamps and conducted …
James Conlon Leads Concert Performances of Krenek and Ullmann Operas at Colburn School
Jan. 12, 2012It's all things opera at the Colburn School in LA when, on January 20-22, Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon conducts LA Opera's Young Artists and the Colburn Orchestra …
Visit Schott/EAM at Chamber Music America
Jan. 11, 2012The annual Chamber Music America Conference returns to New York City January 12 through 15, as artists, presenters and all manner of professionals in the chamber music sphere converge in …
Lancaster Symphony Presents Mahler’s Schumann
Jan. 11, 2012Perhaps few classical devotees are aware that a good portion of Gustav Mahler’s unbound creative energies functioned as tireless music editor. The pursuit of the finest possible realization of music’s …
Singleton and Schwantner Celebrate Martin Luther King
Jan. 10, 2012The music of Alvin Singleton and Joseph Schwantner plays a major role in the Martin Luther King, Jr. concert tributes this month in Atlanta and Alabama. Schwantner’s moving MLK text-setting …
George Benjamin's Palimpsests at New World Symphony
Jan. 10, 2012In a program titled Haunted: Sounds of the Times, the New World Symphony performs George Benjamin's stunning orchestral pairing, Palimpsests I and II, alongside works by Claude Vivier, …