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Articles tagged "classical music"NewsNo shortage of rich classical recordingsby John von Rhein [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][20.Dec.07] :. Despite all the gloom and doom that has surrounded the business like a stale cliche, the tide of interesting and important releases continues unabated. Valiant independent labels continue to plug...  NewsWorld-class maestro heading to the Detroit Symphony Orchestraby Mark Stryker [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][8.Oct.07] :. DETROIT—They got their maestro. He got his orchestra. And Detroit has a new musical leader, whose reputation stretches from the American heartland to the music capitals of Europe and the Far...  NewsMore recent works can give classics just the right spinby Tom Strini [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][5.Sep.07] :. My haphazard introduction to Western art music (also known as classical music) came outside my childhood home, where such music was alien. My fifth-grade teacher, Mr. Sellers, was a fan. He played...  NewsWeb site keeps classical CDs in the mixby John von Rhein [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][11.Jul.07] :. So you think the classical recording business is dead in the water? Think again. The recent reissue of 55 out-of-print Chicago Symphony Orchestra titles by the online classical music store ArkivMusic... NewsRussian virtuoso cellist Rostropovich dies at 80by RIA Novosti (MCT)[27.Apr.07] :. MOSCOW—World-famous cellist-conductor and rights advocate Mstislav Rostropovich died Friday at the age of 80, his press spokeswoman said. The musician was taken to a Moscow oncology center... Media CenterTribute to Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007)by Sarah Zupko[27.Apr.07] :. Perhaps the greatest cellist of the 20th century and surely one of the finest musicians of our times or of any age, Mstislav Rostropovich has died at the age of 80 in a Moscow cancer hospital. ... Classical Radio Communities: Thoughts on Mediationby Chadwick Jenkins[27.Apr.07] :. Classical music radio gives rise to a prophylactic form of community: we are somehow participating with other listeners without having to engage directly with those others. The music becomes a pretense for communal participation. Research is helping to rediscover J.S. Bachby Paul Horsley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][26.Apr.07] :. When he was 13 years old, J.S. Bach copied out Dietrich Buxtehude’s most complicated organ work in the same florid, sophisticated music script that we know from his adult years. But it took... Why Don’t the Planets Speak?: An Inquiry Into Music and Languageby Chadwick Jenkins[23.Mar.07] :. Speech involves saying something individual in a rigid system of conformity. Music seems to attempt something similar -- or, more appropriately, people attempt something similar through music. The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of Improvisationby Chadwick Jenkins[23.Jan.07] :. Jenkins's latest installment in a series of contemporary composer profiles discusses Anthony Braxton, who seems to have looked to music as a means not to erase or ignore cultural dissonance but rather to confront it directly. |
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