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Wolfgang Rihm’s Will Sound Premieres at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall
Feb. 01, 2006
Written for the new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, the New York-based eclectici virtuosi (to invent a term), Will Sound bears a resemblance to the performers’ name which, in addition …Joseph Schwantner’s Morning’s Embrace in World Premiere Performances by the National Symphony Orchestra
Feb. 01, 2006
Joseph Schwantner’s Morning’s Embrace premieres on February 23 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Commissioned for the National Symphony Orchestra’s …Truth, Alvin Singleton’s New Choral Ballet Based on the Life of Sojourner Truth Premieres in St. Paul
Feb. 01, 2006
Alvin Singleton's Truth premieres February 19, 2006 at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota by the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and TU Dance. Highlighting Black History …Gershwin's An American in Paris Performed by the New York City Ballet in Washington
Feb. 01, 2006
In the company's brief stay at the Kennedy Center at the beginning of March, the New York City Ballet features Gershwin's classic An American in Paris on March 3 and …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 …