The 2018 Aldeburgh Festival celebrates Britten’s links to America via the music of Leonard Bernstein, whose centenary it is this year. Britten and Bernstein had a remarkably similar training and outlook—both conducted,…
US composer and guitarist Glenn Branca died on May 13th. He was 69. Branca studied theatre at Emerson College, Boston. After spending time in the UK in 1973, he returned…
New York-based composer Matt Marks died on May 11th. He was just 38. Not just a composer but also a mean arranger, singer and horn player, Marks was a founding…
Whether a recent story about proclivities of Admiral Lord Nelson is true or false, it rather proves that the sexual lives of the renowned dead provide good copy. This has always been…
American composer, pianist and academic Donald H. Keats died on 27th April. He was 88. Keats was a graduate of Yale University, where he studied with Quincy Porter and Hindemith,…
Moritz Eggert - photo Katharina Dubno I talk to German composer Moritz Eggert about his life, motivations and new CD Musica Viva 30, which has just been released on the…
Classical music streaming service IDAGIO has announced a collaboration that will make the entire Warner Classics and Erato catalogue available to its users. The IDAGIO catalogue, which already comprises over…
Jennifer Higdon has been awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition for ‘her highly acclaimed and wide-ranging compositions that have led to her status and one of most…
The Techtonics Festival (5–6th) at City Halls, Glasgow prides itself on being being international, this year being no exception, with performers and composers from Japan, Lithuania, France, Sweden, Norway USA and UK.…
A belated ‘happy birthday’ to Samuel Adler, who celebrated his 90th birthday on 4th March. Some composers will know him best from his widely used treatise The Study of Orchestration, but…