Events and Festivals
Radiohead Tracks to be Reworked into Classical CompositionJanuary 31, 2012
Radiohead is about to get the classical treatment. Minimalist composer Steve Reich has announced that he will be reworking two songs from Radiohead’s catalog into a classical piece he’s writing called “Radio Rewrite,” according to UK newspaper the Guardian . Reich’s versions of "Everything in Its Right Place" from Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A and “Jigsaw Falling into Place” from 2007’s In Rainbows will be part of the piece which will be performed on March 5 as part of London’s Southbank Festival.
Culture Music Classical music The Rest is Noise: Southbank festival to celebrate contemporary classical music
January 24, 2012
When Alex Ross started writing The Rest is Noise in 2000 he never expected that a book about 20th-century classical music would go on to sell 250,000 copies and win literary prizes around the world – including the Guardian First Book Award. Now the book's extraordinary success has scaled new heights with the announcement of a year-long festival at London's Southbank Centre which aims to bring it to life.
Winter Festival 2012: Immortal Investments
January 17, 2012
Profiling Immortal Investments, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Winter Festival, celebrating the enduring results of artistic patronage.
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Top HeadlinesCamilla Williams, black opera pioneer, dies at 92January 31, 2012 Camilla Williams, believed to be the first African-American woman to appear with a major U.S. opera company, has died. She was 92.
Audiences flock to 'difficult' contemporary classical music January 31, 2012 When Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann was a student 25 years ago, "if you had more than 30 people at a concert it was a failure because it was populist crap". Today, there are growing signs that contemporary classical music is shrugging off its elitist reputation, with audiences flocking to work previously regarded as austere and impenetrable.
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Ensemble and Performer NewsGarrick Ohlsson: In Pursuit Of A WarhorseJanuary 31, 2012 Pianist Garrick Ohlsson launched his career in 1970, when he became the first American to win the International Chopin Competition. Since then, he's performed and recorded an exceptionally wide range of piano literature — Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and much more. But there's one romantic warhorse he's avoided in the recording studio until now: Rachmaninov's flashy and notoriously finger-twisting Piano Concerto No. 3.
Composer NewsBBC Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)January 31, 2012 By the end of the Great War, Sir Edward Elgar couldn't compose any music to celebrate peace, disillusioned as he was by the whole period, which Donald Macleod explores in conversation with Terry Charman from the Imperial War Museum.
ReviewsHector Berlioz Les nuits d'été / Harold en Italie (viola: Antoine Tamestit; mezzo-soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter; Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble; Marc Minkowski)January 31, 2012 Harold in Italy was commissioned from Berlioz by the virtuoso violinist Paganini, who wanted something to show off his fine new viola. Actually, that’s not quite true; Paganini thought he was paying for a flashy concerto, but what he got was a symphonic poem. The viola plays the part of Byron’s Childe Harold, while Berlioz relives his own happy memories of travelling the wilds of Italy, meeting the locals in the mountains, encountering priests, brigands, and travelling musicians. Paganini was disappointed, and never played it… and despite an enthusiasm for most Berlioz, I’ve tended to agree with Paganini, and never quite hit it off with Harold. Until now.
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