Recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor number in the hundreds, and there's little reason to get excited about yet another, unless it's a rendition by Franz Welser-Möst, a dynamic Austrian conductor who can be relied on to do something interesting with this masterpiece. Sure enough, this live version with the Cleveland ...
From the time he was a teenager, William Bolcom had dreamed of setting William Blake's epic poem collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience to music -- and eventually he did. But it took over a quarter of a century, from the first completed songs at age 17 in 1956 until 1982 when, as a tenured professor at the University of Michigan at Ann ...
Afro-Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman (the unusual name is a mixture of her maiden name and her husband's last name) continues with this, her third album, to show herself as a distinctive talent rather than a novelty. The trio of composers included on Surprise may seem unusual (and Brueggergosman's early champion William Bolcom must be ...
Fans of basketball's Ben Wallace aren't the only ones "feeling the 'fro" these days; Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman boasts one of impressive size, and it's just part of an overall charisma and sense of stage command that has live audiences raving. She was born in bilingual New Brunswick (the lengthy name is the result of the fusing of own ...
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