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Composer Philip Glass is an ambitious man who at age 70 is debuting an opera about the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, whose legacy still haunts the country more than 140 years later. Glass, whose inspirations for more than 20 operas have ranged from a vision of Albert Einstein strolling on the beach to Gandhi preaching nonviolence, says the new opera, "Appomattox," is different from his other works. 
Ivan Hewett explores the bizarre sounds and strange life of Luigi Nono, [photo] one of Italy's 'champagne socialists' All the world thinks of Venice as pre-eminently a feast for the eyes; what is not so well known is that Venice also has its own unique, alluring sound-scape. Luigi Nono: a notoriously prickly character There's the muted outdoor one of lapping waves, the fog-horns of distant boats, and the strange aural perspectives from sounds reflecting off water...
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RALEIGH - It's usually Robert Ward in the audience, listening to musicians play what he has written. But on his 90th birthday, the roles were reversed. Close to 300 admirers -- many of them the Triangle's most accomplished musicians and opera singers -- rose to their feet in an ovation and an operatic round of "Happy Birthday" while the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer had the stage all to himself. ...MORE... | Google Links | BUY Robert Ward
Austrian composer and organist Anton Bruckner spent most of his life quietly composing, but now he’s regarded as one of 19th-century’s great symphonic masters. Anton Bruckner did not win wide recognition for many years, but is now regarded as one of the great symphonic composers of the 19th century. ...MORE... | Google Links | BUY Bruckner
He was a figure barely known by most concertgoers in the West, but he was a major force in Russian music of the 20th century, not for his many compositions but for his role as a cultural official appointed by Stalin in 1948 to lead the country's composers' union. During the grim final years of the Stalin era, in keeping with the ideological campaign of the day, Khrennikov notoriously attacked the country's most prominent composers - among them Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev. But, strange to say, Khrennikov was also one of the great survivors of the Soviet Union......MORE...
Ludwig van Beethoven may have died accidentally at the hands of his own physician. The Austrian composer died in 1827 at age 56, probably of pneumonia and complications of abdominal problems. But scientists think he suffered from lead poisoning.......MORE...
His operas sell out immediately. His theories changed classical music. His artistic legacy still divides his warring family. Millions either love him obsessively or hate him passionately......MORE...
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German city of Eisenach is now launching a campaign to publicise its association with the most famous of all baroque musicians...JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH... after decades during which the composer was hijacked by various ideologies, including nazism and communism. It rankles with the Eisenachers that his name is so little associated with the place. "You hear the name Salzburg, and you immediately think of Mozart," said the museum's marketing manager Silvia Hochkirch. "My life's aim is to ensure that Eisenach is one day similarly connected in minds across the world with Bach."
At age 18, Dominik Maican is already an acclaimed composer, with six symphonies, a mass, chamber music pieces, solo piano works and songs to his credit. Dominik is a U.S. citizen, but was born in Koln, Germany, and moved to Washington, DC, in 1991 with his parents Drs. Valerica Maican and Marcel Maican. Dominik beganstudying piano at the age of 3 and composition at the age of 5 with his mother. He isthe proud recipient of nine piano awards and over 40 awards for musical compositionThis fall Maican will attend Indiana University, home to one of the largest music schools in the United States. He says he hopes to get a well-rounded education and leave some of his concentrated music studies behind.
At the annual Ceremonial of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in New York, Steven Stucky [left] was inducted as a newly-elected
member, and George Tsontakis [right] was honored with the fourth Charles Ives
Living Award, which provides a generous stipend for three years, enabling
the composer to concentrate on composition, without other salaried
employment during that time.
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