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Eightieth Anniversary Year of Legendary American Composer Earle Brown during the 2006-07 Season
Jan. 01, 2006
A composer of diverse influences and paths, Earle Brown (1926-2002) has been a major force in contemporary music since the early 1950s. His experiments in notation and the creation of …The Essence of György Ligeti on Display at Lincoln Center
Jan. 01, 2006
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents a special focus on the great Hungarian master György Ligeti this month. In a mini-festival billed as “The Essence of Ligeti”, the Society …Mark-Anthony Turnage Named Mead Composer-in-Residence at Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Jan. 01, 2006Congratulations to Mark-Anthony Turnage on his appointment as Mead Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The two-year residency will span the Orchestra’s 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 concert seasons. As part of …
Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids Bows in Amsterdam
Jan. 01, 2006The one-act music drama that Henze and his librettists, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, fashioned from Euripides' The Bacchae has recently completed a hugely successsful run at the Het Muziektheater …
Lys Symonette, Last Artistic Link to Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Dies at Age 90
Jan. 01, 2006Lys Symonette (1914-2005)
Lys Symonette, Kurt Weill’s musical assistant on Broadway from 1945 to 1950, and Lotte Lenya’s accompanist and musical advisor from 1950 to 1981, died of a heart …
Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur Selected by Le Monde As One of Best Classical Recordings of 2005
Jan. 01, 2006
After years of slumber, Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphurawakened on the stage of Glimmerglass Opera during the 2004 festival season—and it was a hit! In 2005, the …Japanese Composers Akira Nishimura and Somei Satoh Featured at The Juilliard School's 2006 Focus! Festival
Jan. 01, 2006
As part of the many festivities celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The Juilliard School, the school’s annual Focus! Festival has taken on the theme “New and Now,” presenting only …Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy Acclaimed in New York
Jan. 01, 2006
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel of the same name, An American Tragedy saw its world premiere on December 2, 2005 at The Metropolitan Opera in New York kicking off …