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Aug 06
So I’m spending the next year listening to a lot of American music and maybe finally getting to grips with Carter, the world’s oldest living composer. But, I’m starting at the simpler end with Copland. I’ve always thought Copland an excellen (read full article)
aaron copland, charles ives, clarinet concerto, composers, elliott carter, fanfare for the common man, jack brymer, leonard bernstein, london symphony orchestra, Music
Jul 22
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dowley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Char (read full article)
1910, actors, augustus phillips, black & white, bronx, charles ogle, Cinema, culture, directors, edison
Jul 12
Composer David Cope has spent the last 30 years teaching computers to create classical music. Nothing more needs to be said about this. (read full article)
california, carnegie hall, composers, computers, david cope, emily howell, emmy, experiments in musical intelligence, Music, santa cruz
May 28
Anneliese Rothenberger as Lulu Anneliese Rothenberger, an internationally known German soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York in the 1960s, died on Monday in Switzerland. As befits a diva, her exact age had long been shrouded in obs (read full article)
anneliese rothenberger, Germany, lulu, metropolitan opera, Music, New York City, Obituaries, opera, singers, sopranos
Feb 01
Earl Wild was an extraordinary pianist with that grand, big sound and that broad romantic approach – something rarely heard nowadays. A fine musician who has made my music listening incomparably richer. A superbly gifted and unique artist, perhaps (read full article)
balakirev, chopin, earl wild, liszt, London, Music, Obituaries, pianists, queen elizabeth hall, reynaldo hahn