There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...
The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...
Joan Tower's first major orchestral work, Sequoia, from 1981, opens with the boom of a massive gong and a fusillade of deafening cowbells. Like the statuesque redwoods of the title, the music looms ...
You may not know the name Teresa del Riego, but maybe you should. The Spanish/English composer wrote more than 300 ballads. Her music was performed routinely throughout her long lifetime (she lived ...
Carlos Simon, the Boston Symphony’s new composer chair, talks with WCRB’s Brian McCreath about his musical and personal roots in the churches of his family, his hopes and plans with the BSO — ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness ...
Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...
BAFTA-winning game music composers don't see AI as a threat. Rather, it could be a catalyst for weird and wonderful ...
It’s easy to see the similarities between The Legend of Zelda games and many FromSoftware games. My own memories of Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild run together in the best of ways, each experience ...
HBO’s new television show, The Baby, is billed as a horror series in the vein of the acclaimed movie Get Out. And it’s true. The show, which debuts on the premium channel on April 24, is both terrific ...
Labrinth, in a new Instagram post, criticised the music industry’s obsession with fame and big names. He called ...