Editors of contemporary classical music are used to describing what they do through metaphors and comparisons. “I suppose you could say I was like a midwife bringing musical children into the world, ”...
03.11.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesSteve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse Tom Huizenga | March 14, 2025 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on linkedin Share by Email Forgive the pun, but the America...
03.14.2025 Npr.org and 2 sitesForgive the pun, but the American composer Steve Reich has had his finger on the pulse of Western music for over six decades. Like the rudimentary shapes and colors of Sol LeWitt's deceptively simple-...
03.14.2025 Houstonpublicmedia.org and 2 sitesThe twenties. An era of Prohibition (and gangsters)…jazz…flappers…The Great Gatsby…and an accelerating stock market. I thought it might be fun to take a look at the state of technology as it stood a c...
03.11.2025 Chicagoboyz.netLeonard Slatkin Nico Rodamel How many contemporary readers were seated within these walls on January 10, 1974, when a young man named Leonard Slatkin took the stage to conduct music by Berlioz, Beethoven, and Prokofiev? Then 29 years old and full of ideas and intelligence, he was on a path that would lead to music directorships in the United States and the United Kingdom, to more than 100 recordings (35 of which were finalists for Grammy Awards, 6 of them winners), and to a sustained and passion...
03.12.2025 Playbill.comBAKU, Azerbaijan, March 11. In the grand hall of the University of Texas in Arlington, USA, the enchanting melodies of Azerbaijani pianist Fidan Agayeva-Edler danced through the air, as she wove a tap...
03.11.2025 Trend.azNeuroscientists have posited that the conscious mind resembles a theatre. Input and memory coalesce in emotion and ideation. Scenes play out onstage, complete with embedded symbolism and an ever-evolv...
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