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Composers and music artists | First
Listen:
'Cantique'
The
Music
of
Arvo
Pärt
Songs
of freedom | Interned in the first world war and
persecuted
in the second, Luigi Dallapiccola had a deep hatred of tyranny |
Houston Chronicle
Boston Globe
Penderecki
-
An
Avant
Gardist
Turns
Less
So
NY Times - Vivien Shweitzer
The
Sights
&
Sounmds
Of
Luigi
Nono's
Venice
"From Monteverdi to Stravinsky, numerous composers have found
inspiration in the architecture of Venice:
Guardian.co.uk - Tom Service
"The conductor died and the country had a crisis. But Bliss, the opera
based on Peter Carey's fleeing-the-rat-race novel, survived"
Intimidated
by Mozart’s Ghost? Not Anymore | NY
Times - By STEVE SMITH | "At 11,
Kaija
Saariaho thought she was finished; now she is one of the world’s
leading
composers." |
George
Russell, Composer Whose Theories Sent Jazz in a New Direction, Dies at
86 - NY Times
- Ben
Rattliff - "Mr. Russell was a major figure in one of
the most important
developments in post-World War II jazz: the emergence of modal jazz,
the first major harmonic change in the music after bebop"
Finnish
Composer Bursts Some Of Her Own Myths
- NY Times - Allan Kozinn
"She is particularly fond of sparkling
percussion — xylophones,
triangles and marimbas have as much to do in her music as the strings —
and of bright flute lines, punctuated with overblowing
techniques."
Composer
Philip Glass discusses music for the big screen |
TheDartmouth.com
|
A
Century Has Passed; His Time Is Still Now: Elliot Carter
| NY Times - By ALLAN KOZINN
Watch
Sigur Ros' Stunning MoMA Performance
|
Wired
-
Eliot
Van Buskirk
Brian Eno Exhibit in
Long Island Invites
Viewers To See The Music
LA Times"Multimedia
installation
'77
Million
Paintings'
marries monitors
displaying mutating imagesto anambient
score composed by the artist"
Glass
Looks To The Heavens Again - NY
Times - Allan Kozinn
"Philip Glass clearly enjoys examining ideas from just
about every angle, and that applies as fully to opera subjects as to specific musical moves"
One
Piece (Composed by Steve Reich) and Two Visions
NY Times - ALASTAIR
MACAULAY
Norman
Dello Joio, Prolific and Popular Composer, Is Dead at 95
| NY Times - By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Minimalist
Man Tries Organizing a Concert Series
| NY Times - By STEVE SMITH
A
Range of Sounds, From Brash to Beautiful
| NY Times - "Reviews of works performed
by Jennifer Koh and Reiko Uchida, Morton Feldman and Michael Gandolfi."
Honoring
the ‘Uphill Battle’ of a Champion of New Choral Music
| NY Times |
The
Elusive Allure of Olivier Messiaen
|
Detroit
Free
Press,
United States - Jun 22, 2008 BY MARK
STRYKER | "1938 vintage was good for Bordeaux but
stupendous
for American composers" |
Composer
Tan Dun to employ "organic music" in Olympic production - (Xinhua)
| China Daily | "Oscar-winning
Chinese
musician
Tan
Dun
said at an ongoing arts festival that he is
going
to employ "organic music" - produced by basic natural elements
such
as water and paper - in his rock-and-roll production for the 2008
Beijing
Olympics." |
Composer
- Luigi Nono - Fragments of Venice, with Maurizio Pollini
| CompositionToday | "My
works
always
take
their
bearings from a human stimulus; an event,an
experience,
a text of our life touches my instinct and my conscience and demands of
me that as a musician and as a human being I should bear
witness.
(1958)"
Variations
on a musical enigma |
Guardian
| John
Cage's strangest work to get its British premiere
James
Piano Quartet to premiere new Professor Holliday composition
|
OurValley.org
|
"new
work by Virginia Tech’s
award-winning composer Kent Holliday, Professor of Piano and
Composition.
The new work entitled Udolpho, inspired by the novel The Mysteries of
Udolpho
by Anne Radcliffe"
The
Music of the Gears | By J.R. BRANDSTRADER
-
In a piece called “Requiem for Fossil Fuels” by composers Bruce Odland
and Sam Auinger, who go professionally by the name O+A, the bell
tolls for the sounds generated by oil-fueled transportation - NY
Times
John
Adams audio interview |
CompositionToday.com
70th birthday of one of America's most
prominent and prolific composers, Pulitzer Prize-winning musician John
Harbison
A
Little Composition and a Little Archaeology Composer:
Alfred
Schnittke- By
STEVE SMITH | Ny
Times |
A
Little Composition and a Little Archaeology Composer:
Alfred
Schnittke- By
STEVE SMITH | Ny
Times |
LiverpoolDailyPost
| Hesketh,
39 - Composer in residence is set on creating great music
with
something of a flourish |
eMediaWire
|
Composer
Steve Horelick Earns 2007 EMMY Nomination for PBS's 'Reading Rainbow'
MusicalTime.com
|
Composition
articles
&
essays | Music
Analysis | Composers
Works | Links |
ValleySun
|
Meet
Award-Winning Composer of "Wicked"
Lancaster
Newspapers,
PA | Music
is
serious
fun
for
composer Peter Schickele
Michael
Kaulkin:
About
the
Composer | Other Blogs and
Stuff
Telegraph.co.uk
| Don't call me a messiah | "Thomas Adès
talks to Peter Culshaw about his thrilling new work and about the
burden
of being seen as the saviour of English music" |
GameZone
| “Stay
Alive” Composer John Frizzell Gets Creepy With GameZone
|
The idea is that you hire a composer not just to define what the music
... Then manipulate them inside my software by chopping them up,
running
them through guitar
C:T
talks to Phill Cooke of the London Contemporary Music Group
| CompositionToday.com
Telegraph,
UK | I
love to work out after a hard day composing | Tansy
Davies
is one of a new generation of composers who are redefining classical
music.
She talks to Ivan Hewett |
ArtsAlive.ca
- Music : NAC Orchestra and Friends | Composer
Interviews
|
UPI
| Austrian
composer Ligeti dead at 83
Buffalo.edu
|
Exhibition
Says, "Happy Birthday, Morton Feldman!"
MusicNerve
|
Paul
Simon's foray into the avant-garde
African
American Composers and Songwriters
Rober
Faroon Society
MusicMoz
Occidental
ABC
Index;
Composers
Parade
Of
Performances
To
Pay
Tribute To Prolific Composer
| The Columbus Dispatch | "Jennifer
Higdon knew she
was destined to become a composer | In fact, a
quarter-century later, she is considered one of the most-popular living
American
composers -- creating pieces performed by hundreds of orchestras and
ensembles." |
A Son Composes His Own Path
| NY Times - Vivien
Schweitzer | "Lukas Ligeti
is
striving
to
cement
his own reputation as a composer while
defending his father’s legacy."
Musical
Theatre | Composer Profiles |
The
online home of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters
|
library
for
20th
century British classical music
Classical
Music on the Web Includes composer profiles Classical Net Classical
music
resource site which includes an extensive composers index |
Song
Of
The
Year.com - "Songwriting
contest
and
lyric writing judges
include
numerous
Grammy Award Winners,
Major Record Labels,
individuals
from Rolling Stone Magazine, professional
songwriters
and
individuals
who
have
worked with Nickelback, Tim
McGraw,
Ludacris, Sting,
INXS, and many more."
scorereviews.com
|
film
music
composers
|
narniafans.com
Non-British
Composer
pages | MusicWeb
Scottish
Music Centre
John
Roache's
Ragtime
MIDI
Library
Performer/Composer Profiles
musicweb.uk.net
|
International
(Non-British)
composer
profiles, biographies
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Productions Music | Composer Profiles |
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of the talented artists who write and produce our content.
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| Classical Composer Biographies |
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Music> Profiles & Biographies> Classical ... Classical
Composer Biographies.
Discover the history behind many famous.
BBC
- Radio 3 - BBC Proms Composer Portraits |
Composer
Profiles | earndc | Listing and links
to
biographies of artists represented by European American Music
Corporation,
Helicon Music Corporation, or Warner/Chappell Music, |
Jenny
Scheinman: Live At The Village Vanguard
|
"The violinist, composer and occasional country singer has long been
developing
a rich, earthy take on American music, filtered through adventurous
jazz
sensibilities" |
EssentialsOfMusic
| Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992) | "The music of
Olivier
Messiaen stands out for the depth of spirituality that lies behind it.
He was a highly original composer whose style embraced a markedly wide
range of influences and reflects his own unique synthesis of these
ideas.
" |
Essentials
of Music | Composers & listening examples
|
YahooNews
| A work by celebrated 20th century British composer
Benjamin
Britten, until recently overlooked by the music world, will premiere at
a major concert in London next month. |
AllClassical
| Composer profile | György Ligeti |
Composers
EM in UK Directory | Library | Composers
|
Honoring
a Modern Composer Shaped by French Tradition
| By Vivian Schweitzer - NY Times
|
"A Bargemusic concert celebrating Ned Rorem’s 85th birthday included
works
from across the composer’s considerable oeuvre." |
The
Conductor Asked for Something Rhapsodic; the Composer Delivered a
Surprise
| NY Times - By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
|
"Steven Stucky provided an urgent, sometimes dizzying and continually
surprising
piece in “Rhapsodies for Orchestra,” performed on Thursday at Avery
Fisher
Hall"
Famed
composer Philip Glass has been comissioned |
disneys-liloand-stich.blogspot
| "Famed composer Philip Glass has been comissioned to compose an
Opera based on novel The Perfect American" |
Intense
Colors Amid the Ethereal Melodies
|
NY
Times
-
"Listening to a committed
performance
of Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” is an emotionally
shattering
experience" |
Feeling
playful, conductor composes
| boston.com | Steven Lipsitt will lead a Boston
Classical
Orchestra program that includes his first composition in nearly 30
years"
|
Soul
Mates on the Wild Side: Transcendental Ives and Mavericky Beethoven
| Anthony Tommassini - NY Times
|
In
a Queens Coffeehouse, New Music From Composers Scattered Around the
Globe
| NY Times - By STEVE SMITH |
"On Monday night at Waltz-Astoria, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble
presented
music by eight Sequenza 21 composers from throughout the United States,
France and the Netherlands." |
A
Changing of the Guard
|
Wall Street Journal | By GREG SANDOW | "Sons of
classical composers are a different breed" |
Anthony
Hopkins presents an evening of his symphony music
| walesonline.co.uk | by Robin Turner |
"HE
HAS been an actor, director, painter and pianist, and now Sir Anthony
Hopkins
is to reveal his symphonies to the world" |
Pianist
Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impressionist | Alan
Kozin reviews Garrick Ohlsson - NY Times
| "An all-Scriabin recital requires fingers, fortitude and an
imagination
freewheeling enough to follow Scriabin’s own peculiar sense of
fantasy"
|
Australian
composer wins elite award | Sydney Morning Herald,
Australia | "Brett Dean has been named the winner of the
2009
Grawemeyer Award, one of the world's most prestigious prizes for music
composition" |
Renaissance
and Medieval Hues in a Modernist Work | NY
Times
- By ANTHONY TOMMASINI |
Pricking
Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California | NY
Times - By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
|
Two Sides Of Carter: Accessible & Knotty - NY
Times - Vivien Schweitzer
SubitoMusic: 9 Composers Featured - News Reports
Composer
Finds
A
Muse
In
The Mississippi
| NY Times - Katherine Shattuck
|
