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Which living composer will talk you to death?
Ahead of the premiere of her opera Lincoln... The post Which living composer will talk you to death? appeared first on Slippedisc.
The Life and Works of Hans Zimmer
From The Lion King to Dune, Hans Zimmer has reshaped film music through bold orchestration, electronic experimentation and emotionally charged soundscapes. Explore the life, works...
Three pianists, 2026
This Week in Classical Music: October 5, 2026. Three pianists. Several important composers and three pianists, one of whom is our favorite, were born this week. We’ll get to the...
The Composer
In the Review’s October 22 issue, Matthew Aucoin surveys Philip Glass’s six-decade musical career, occasioned by the premiere of his new symphony, Lincoln, at Tanglewood this past...
An Out Take With Composer Yang Zhang
Web: instagram.com/yangzhangmercuryorbitmusic Most recent: Quantum Prelude: The Evolution of the Universe Composer Yang Zhang’s debut large-scale orchestral work, “Quantum Prelude:...
From Cabezon to Pärt: Four Centuries of Music, 2026
This Week in Classical Music: August 31, 2026. From Cabezon to Pärt: Four Centuries of Music. This is an interesting week: composers with birthday anniversaries that cover much o...
Charles Mingus: The Passionate Jazz Composer and Bassist
Charles Mingus transformed jazz through compositions that united blues, gospel, classical influences and improvisation. Discover how the visionary double bassist and bandleader cha...
Meet the composers of the Louisville Orchestra 2026-27 Creator Corps
Susanna Hancock and Seare Ahmad Farhat are the composers in the Louisville Orchestra’s Creator Corps this season.
Exploring Minimalism: Philip Glass and Steve Reich
Explore how Philip Glass and Steve Reich transformed twentieth-century classical music through repetition, rhythmic innovation and gradual musical development, establishing minimal...
Four of the Best Video Game Composers 2026
As technology progresses, video game developers have an increasing need for vibrant scores. What once amounted to mere blips and bloops has now become sweeping orchestral movements...
12 Classical Pieces That Changed Music Forever
From Bach and Beethoven to Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Cage, these twelve groundbreaking compositions transformed harmony, rhythm, orchestration and musical form, challenging establ...
Two Views Of A Masterpiece
As a jazz composer is it better to be a hedgehog or a fox, to write music that is so irreducibly singular that there is only one way to perform it or do be so embracingly universal...
Filipino composer Rom Dongeto and the song we thought we knew
Decades after a TV commercial propelled it into the mainstream, the activist-born anthem ‘Kanlungan’ — popularized by the voice of Noel Cabangon — continues to transcend generation...
Calm and composed
In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.
Pavarotti and Zemlinsky, 2026
This Week in Classical Music: October 12, 2026. Pavarotti and Zemlinsky. Today is Luciano Pavarotti’s birthday: he was born in Modena in 1935. His was probably the most recogniz...
Leaving Bayreuth behind, 2026
This Week in Classical Music: August 31, 2026. Leaving Bayreuth behind. For the previous three weeks, we’ve been engaged with the history of Bayreuth, and there’s still much more...
Liszt and the 20th century, 2026
This Week in Classical Music: October 19, 2026. Liszt and the 20th century. This is a very full week for a small entry. Two of the very popular composers have their anniversarie...
Composer Jessie Montgomery: Inside The Indianapolis 2026 Commissioned Violin Work
By Laurie Niles: "Who is writing the new violin work for The Indianapolis this year?"It's Jessie Montgomery, you may know her from...."PERFECT!"This is a variation on many such exc...
The composers that Beethoven blew away
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week; ... The post The composers that Beethoven blew away appeared first on Slippedisc.
Spying from the concert hall.
Spying from the concert hall Thanks to everyone at PSE I'm making a successful career for myself as a spy. My latest assignment was to go to a performance of The Four Seasons by Vi...
‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the sound...
Self-taught composer with Ectrodactyly plays at YSU Presidential Conversation
Self-taught composer with Ectrodactyly plays at YSU Presidential Conversation.
GDC Side Quest - Inside Austin Wintory's Collaborative Composing Process
This month, celebrated composer Austin Wintory joins content marketing manager Beth Elderkin for a conversation about his creative process.
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