Pierre Boulez (born 1925) was the most important French musician after World War II. His activities as composer, conductor, and lecturist made him the uncontested leader of music in the second half of...
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Jessye Norman is on a Spiritual mission.The soprano will curate a 20-day festival celebrating black cultural legacy next season at Carnegie Hall, which also will honor the 100th birthday year of co...
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Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich received the prestigious Polar Music Prize from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony Monday at the Stockholm Concert Hall.The Polar Mu...
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Stockholm (dpa) - American jazz legend Sonny Rollins and US
composer and musician Steve Reich on Monday received the Polar Music
Prize 2007, joining the likes of musical gre...
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Moscow (dpa) - Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich
was buried Sunday in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery following a
requiem mass at Christ the Saviour Cathedra...
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Today is Monday, March 26, the 85th day of 2007. There are 280 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 26, 1979, a peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Beg...
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Cologne, Germany (dpa) - The opera cycle Light was the life work
of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the controversial German composer whose
death was announced Friday at the age of 7...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most important and controversial postwar composers who helped shape a new understanding of sound through electronic compositions, died at his home in western Germa...
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Conducting an orchestra may be the most mysterious profession. All successful maestros must have an acute ear for musical sound, a mastery of the score that finds underlying order among dizzying co...
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Some years ago, Leonard Bernstein wrote that composing a symphony might have become impossible since its traditional inspiration-the idea of nobility-had all but vanished from our lives. In fact, t...
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Pierre Boulez
Carnegie to honor Carter's 100th
