Julliard presented two premiers by two young composers, both under 30, at a one o’clock concert at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday April 18. Joshua Getman’s string quartet “in more...
Julliard presented two premiers by two young composers, both under 30, at a one o’clock concert at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday April 18. Joshua Getman’s string quartet “in more...
An all-Stravinsky Program was performed by Bard’s TÖN Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein at Sosnoff Theater.
The Rite of Spring, the main piece that the audience was restlessly waiting for, was...
While A.R. Gurney (who died last summer) had many successful plays among his 47 plays, Love Letters (1988) condenses his talent for laser-like wit into an amusing two character play...
What are the future trends in contemporary music? One can find a glimpse of those trends by listening to contemporary composers. Co-directors Joan Tower and Blair McMillan offered an annual...
What’s in a tune? Depends upon its history. Ever the historical scholar, Peter Serkin led four students in an amusing lesson, performing “Music for Winds and Piano” on Saturday in...
The ever-expressive and spontaneous Wu Han and digitally assured Michael Brown on piano enraptured the audience at Trinity-Pawling School in Gardiner auditorium last Friday evening when the feeble, sniffling snow...
Yes, hot jazz can be found in Dutchess County. Formed by horn player Matt Finley in 1988, Rio JAZZ has featured sixty-two professional musicians on stage over the past three decades....
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954), an important Roman Catholic figure (he converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism after a near-death experience in the WW I) for 20th-century German music, played a vital role...
