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Joyce DiDonato
Claire Black of the Scotsman meets American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in Milano (click the link for the full article): Pop stars, soap stars, Big Brother contestants – it seems that anyone can now be a diva as long as they behave badly enou (read full article)
Americana: Aaron Copland
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)
Giacinto Scelsi
Is Scelsi the forgotten man of 20th century music par excellence? Well, perhaps not forgotten, as such. I do think that he didn’t, and doesn’t, fit neatly into the usual mould of musically and intellectually bankrupt avant-garde composers becaus (read full article)
Matteo Pericoli: Views of New York City
Matteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of the Manhattan skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York resident musicians, artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron (read full article)
Schnittke: Idle Thoughts
One of the approaches to Schnittke is to regard him in the same way as many do Shostakovich, i.e. in relation to the Soviet regime. The difference is whereas Shostakovich had to respond to an ideology which was still vital, Schnittke’s music is mo (read full article)
David Cope: “You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas”
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)
First Class Second Class Composers
I remember fondly the BBC producing a series under this heading many years ago which highlighted works of great merit by lesser-known composers. Their craftsmanship, ideas and structure were in no way inferior to the works of the big names, but they (read full article)
Handel & Hendrix
The curators and administrators of the Handel House Museum in Mayfair, London, are now preparing to pack up their files, dismantle their desks and open up the rooms where Hendrix lived to visitors to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. Twin blue (read full article)
Chabrier
Heard part of Emmanuel Chabrier’s opera Briséïs today. Can’t imagine why Chabrier thought he was being “modernist” though – didn’t seem that different to me – lovely music, great harmonies and what a sense of drama. I thoroughly enjo (read full article)
Stephen Oliver
Simon Callow writing in the Independent remembers the composer Stephen Oliver, who would have been 60 this year. I miss him still. He was instinct with the life force; his work was rich and witty and direct and accessible. He had achieved astonishin (read full article)
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