American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has become a fixture of American concert halls with his absorbing symphonies and chamber works, Romantic but technically tough-minded. Here the listener gets something different and more intimate: Kernis song cycles that in at least one case are quite personal; all are distinguished by the range of ...
Mario Davidovsky's reputation rests securely on the innovative electronic works he composed in the 1960s, most notably his Synchronisms. Yet Davidovsky's instrumental music deserves equal appreciation and deeper investigation, for his chamber works are just as fascinating as the early tape explorations but are sadly underperformed outside academia ...
Charles Ives' songs played a pivotal role in his thinking, serving not only as material for many of his instrumental works but also as necessary focal points for his experimentation. What different ideas and techniques he might have developed without them is open to debate, though it is possible that Ives' inventive phrasings and aphoristic wit ...
One of the last operas produced in the twentieth century was Louis Andriessen's Writing to Vermeer, premiered at the Netherlands Opera on December 1, 1999. It is a handsome production indeed, with libretto and gigantic film projection components by Peter Greenaway and bursts of electronic music contributed by Michel van der Aa. However, all things ...
Because George Crumb's atmospheric compositions are usually scored for chamber ensembles and filled with myriad quiet effects, his larger-scaled orchestral works may be more difficult to recognize and appreciate. The private tone that Crumb practically trademarked, in such works as Ancient Voices of Children and Music for a Summer Evening, is ...
"That Carl Ruggles," musicologist Mike Seeger once said with a knowing smile "was a piece of work." Ruggles was enormously versatile artistically and could claim creative mastery as a composer, painter, orchestra builder, symphonic bandleader, music teacher, and raconteur. Yet Ruggles was also curmudgeonly, irascible, vulgar, and temperamental, ...
The pivotal works of Ernst Krenek's early career were large-scale operas -- the jazz-inspired zeitoper Jonny spielt auf (1927) and the austerely serial Karl V (1931-1933) -- and he continued to work with the form throughout his career. For his 40-minute chamber opera, What Price Confidence (1945), for four singers and piano, Krenek devised his own ...
Since 1921, the American Academy in Rome -- founded in 1894 and chartered by an act of the United States Congress in 1905 -- has offered an annual fellowship and two residencies to American composers to live and study in Rome for one year. By the time Bridge's four-CD compilation Americans in Rome is offered, 124 such positions have been offered ...
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