The Great Composers: The Lives and Music of the Great Classical Composers
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the field where Chinese composers and performers and Western classical music converge, East has been successfully meeting West long enough that the concept is closer to a norm -- or at least accepted cultural fact -- than a novelty....
Celebrity - Female First (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Muse feel like 19th century classical music composers.The Devonshire trio claim they are incredibly different to their chart rivals because they are more interested in revolutionising music than being seen as "cool".Frontman Matt Bellamy said: "London bands are more concerned with what is cool but it's never been the important thing for us."I think...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Muse feel like 19th century classical music composers, and said they are on a quest to revolutionize music.
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
#1 YOUKU : Part 1 , Part 2 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Produced by Associate producer: Herbert Coleman Uncredited: Alfred Hitchcock Written by Novel: Leon Uris Screenplay: Samuel A. Taylor Starring Frederick Stafford Dany Robin Claude Jade Michel Subor John Forsythe Karin Dor John Vernon Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Roscoe Lee Browne Music by Maurice Jarre Cinematography Jack Hildyard Editing by...
Tote Bags 'n' Blogs (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Ohmigosh! I’ve been proclaiming loud and long about the lamentable practice of celebrating Christmas long before even Thanksgiving Day. About how we skip from Labor Day to Christmas without a by-your-leave for the wonderful holiday when we take a moment to give thanks for all our blessings. But. . . gulp. . . it turns out I am an offender! My turkey is not even thawed in the fridge and I’m...
Sandow (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Continuing what I started in my last post. 3, Recent history, art and music. Music. Atonal composers started dominating composition -- in prestige, grant-worthiness, faculty hiring, and, retrospectively, in the way classical music history has been written -- sometime in...
Classical Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Ma Sicong (1912-1987) is important because he was a major Chinese composer who wrote western classical music, but influenced by Chinese traditional music - think Bartók, Ravel, Janáček creating their music from folk forms. Some of Ma's music is seriously good. Ma is also important because his life reflects what happened in China during his lifetime. His parents were Guangdong intellectuals:...
TOP OF THE STAIRS MUSIC (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Below is my playlist for Filmic 4 going out at 9pm BST 26th November on www.radionowhere.org OR you can download as a podcast OR you can listen to it now by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser:- http://www.radionowhere.org/12.Nov.2009%20F.mp3 Had fun doing it. If you like it and you have a fave piece of film music or a fave song from a movie, let me know and I'll play it for...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Henry Cowell Which composer exerted the greatest influence on 20th-century American classical music? Thursday and Friday, Other Minds, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to such music, will make the case for Henry Cowell. Cowell, who died in 1965, was a prolific composer whose own music was eclipsed by the works of his students. Other Minds director Charles [...]
The Graham English Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
"There's a mysterious new composer on the classical music scene. Her name? Emily Howell. But no one's ever seen her in person. The reason? She's a computer program created by David Cope, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Host Guy Raz speaks with Cope about his creation and gets a sneak peek at Emily's first record, which hits stores next spring."
Sandow (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
No, not my next book riff, though that's coming very soon. What's long overdue are two things -- first, major classical music institutions seriously acknowledging alt-classical composers, and, second, a little celebration, here in my blog, for the Chicago Symphony...
operaman's blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I posted last week about my meeting with PYP Maestro, David Hattner. Our meeting left me excited that I would be attending the opening concert of their season on Saturday evening (the first concert of the PYP I have ever attended) but really nothing prepared me for the experience I actually had. I am not going to try to write a reasoned review of the concert but I would like to share with you some...
Saga (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The album, released worldwide on November 30, 2009, will be an enchanting blend of Lauretan Litanies and Marian popular chants with eight original pieces of modern classical music. What makes this release unique is that this is the very first time that the voice of Pope Benedict XVI, speaking and singing in Latin, Italian, Portuguese, French and German, will be heard on an album, thanks to the audio...
My Fickle Ears Dig It (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
When I first started composing as a teen, the medium I worked in exclusively for the first several years was essentially the school band medium that I had been exposed to as a budding euphonium player. Even after I became involved in jazz as a player, it wasn't until several years later that I made my first attempts to compose in that idiom, and they were quite awkward and unsuccessful attempts, even...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
November 14, 1954—Eleven years to the day he electrified classical music audiences by appearing for the first time at Carnegie Hall, Leonard Bernstein made a debut of a different kind: as a master music teacher for the television age, on the CBS arts-and-entertainment show Omnibus. The appearance, in which he led viewers through Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony , describing the composer’s...
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