Bound for New Life, Set to Music of the Old World
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Bruno Morettiâs music turns âOltremareâ into a theater piece both effective and evocative.
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The next great Wotan has arrived. Bryn Terfel sang the role of Wagner's head god for the first time Saturday night in the premiere of The Royal Opera's new production of "Das Rheingold," a macabre staging likely to provoke controversy. With his burnished bass-baritone, impeccable diction and intense acting, he gave a memorable performance that is likely to deepen over the next decade as he performs Wotan on the world's great stages.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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It is mood music conforming to the sentimental nature of the story that sets the album apart.
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The new âEdge/Joy,â to music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, is a formal departure from Garth Faganâs dancer-driven style and requires extra work from the audience, but itâs rewarding work.
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Hereâs a measure of how healthy new music is in New York these days: In a city with roughly a gazillion new-music groups, a new one made its debut on Monday evening at Mannes College the New School for Music, and the schoolâs auditorium was packed.
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The 150th anniversary of the birth of composer Sir Edward Elgar is marked with special performances.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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HALIFAX, Novia Scotia -- Once, music echoed through Africville, Canada's oldest black community. Men on guitars and pianos jammed on weekend nights until early morning. When Duke Ellington visited -- his wife had family there -- the whole community turned out, 400 strong, to play or just listen to the jumping tunes.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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A MUSIC group from Warwickshire will give a concert in their home county later this month.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestraâs first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a solid if commonplace program that danced around late Romanticism and the first rumblings of modernism.
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Emily Newsomâs perpetual-motion harp playing provides settings that encompass madrigals, Appalachian ballads and African griot songs, and her voice can sound piercing or intimate.
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In Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen, the composer has gone on a sentimental journey and created an enjoyable aural treat.
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Ambitious new string quartets seem to be appearing on the classical landscape faster than condos on the Manhattan skyline. Many of them, like the vigorous Attacca Quartet, are embracing contemporary music.
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They've bumped and grinded and sung their way