Nonesuch At 50: A Record Label Without Borders
Sometimes good things come in small packages. Nonesuch Records, which started as a tiny independent budget classical label in 1964, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with three weeks of concerts at...
View ArticleNew Boston Symphony Music Director Andris Nelsons: 'It's Not A Job — It's Life'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOQB-0zsSY Andris Nelsons is a bear of a man. The 35-year-old Latvian conductor, who will become the Boston Symphony Orchestra 's youngest music director in more than a...
View ArticleAt 75, Tanglewood's Student Program Holds Focus On New Music And People...
The list of its faculty and students is a who's who of 20th-century music: Aaron Copland , Leonard Bernstein , John Adams , Augusta Read Thomas. The Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony...
View ArticleFarewell To Blackfaced Otellos At The Met
When the curtain rises on the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi 's Otello tonight, opera fans will quickly notice what's not there. For the first time since the opera was first staged at the...
View ArticleJaap Van Zweden Named Next Music Director Of The New York Philharmonic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouP7RTGUALY The nation's oldest orchestra, the New York Philharmonic , announced the appointment of its 26th music director Wednesday. Following in the path of Gustav...
View ArticleOpera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird'
You often don't think of opera at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Tonight that changes: Charlie Parker's Yardbird gets its New York premiere there. It's an opera about the jazz saxophonist on the...
View ArticleIf At First (Or Fourth) You Don't Succeed, Join The Tanglewood Stage Crew
Miles Salerni, a 25-year-old percussionist, is one of this year's elite instrumental Fellows at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra 's summer home in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. But...
View ArticleOn The Steps Of Lincoln Center, A Choir The Size Of An Army
Yesterday in New York, something very big happened outside Lincoln Center: One thousand people gathered to sing a new piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang . Entitled the public domain ,...
View Article'It's Familiar To All The Women In My Family:' Adapting Von Trier For The Opera
This week, a new opera based on the popular but controversial Lars von Trier film, Breaking the Waves , opened in Philadelphia. With its potent combination of sex, religion and transgression, the...
View ArticleBringing A Christmas Classic To Wonderful Life — On Stage
Christmas is coming, and soon TV screens everywhere will light up with that 1946 holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life . But the same story is coming a little early to the stage of the Houston Grand...
View Article'Half Of Humanity Has Something To Say': Composer Kaija Saariaho On Her Met...
The last time New York's Metropolitan Opera presented a work written by a woman was 113 years ago. It's a drought that lasted longer than the years between the Cubs' World Series victories. That...
View ArticleMeet The Producer Who Runs Her Opera Empire From A 2-Bedroom Apartment
Classical composers have long had their patrons: Beethoven had Archduke Rudolph, John Cage had Betty Freeman. For contemporary opera composers, there's Beth Morrison . She and her production company...
View ArticleBarbara Cook, Tony Award-Winning Actress And Singer, Dies At 89
Tony Award-winning actress and singer Barbara Cook, an ingénue in Broadway's Golden Age — during the 1950s and '60s — who later transformed herself into a concert and cabaret star, has died. She was...
View Article'We Shall Not Be Moved': A New Opera Traces The Legacy Of The 1985 MOVE Bombing
We Shall Not Be Moved is a new opera that takes its name from both the old spiritual-turned-civil-rights anthem and the Philadelphia black liberation group, MOVE. That group might be best-remembered...
View Article150 Psalms, 12 Days: Music for Challenging Times At The White Light Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mubsMf0mmCw The Hebrew Psalms have inspired composers for thousands of years. Now, New York's Lincoln Center is presenting The Psalms Experience, a festival of choral...
View ArticleMaking Musical Connections At Sing Sing Prison
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is not the sort of place you'd expect to find a flourishing music community, but a workshop run by Carnegie Hall offers inmates the ability to learn in harmony. Twice a...
View ArticleOliver Knussen, Composer And Conductor, Dies At 66
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl43oYHrk1k Composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, one of Britain's most influential contemporary classical figures, died Sunday, July 8, at the age of 66. His passing...
View ArticleThe Complex Life Of Leonard Bernstein, A Once-In-A-Century Talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxwWlQNGeKE Aug. 25, 2018 marks the centennial of Leonard Bernstein 's birth. He was a singular American talent and one of the great orchestra conductors of his...
View ArticleNew York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Struggle To Find Their Way
Two of the country's oldest and most venerated music institutions, the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera, are beginning their seasons with a change in artistic leadership. Both...
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