His music, which was performed by many prominent ensembles, mixed melodic themes and rich textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism.
Category: Classical Music
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A Virtuoso Cellist’s Painstaking Path From Long Covid Back to the Stage
For over three years, long Covid has presented Joshua Roman with health challenges — and has indelibly shaped the music he makes.
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One of Classical Music’s Great Builders Prepares for the Next Step
Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen: A Conductor at the Top, and at a Crossroads
Salonen, who will soon be a free agent for the first time in decades, could do pretty much anything at this stage. What will it be?
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Facing Turmoil at Home, Young Artists Find a Musical Haven in New York
Hundreds of students from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere converged at Carnegie Hall, using music to cope in a time of strife and unrest.
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Lincoln Center Taps Education Leader as Next President
Mariko Silver, a former president of Bennington College, will take the reins of the organization as it seeks to expand its audience and increase fund-raising.
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Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yuval Sharon Will Team Up for ‘Ring’
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, will extend his contract and lead Wagner’s four-opera epic, in a production staged by Yuval Sharon.
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The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz
The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams.
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Walter Arlen, Holocaust Refugee and Belated Composer, Is Dead at 103
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
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Lincoln Center’s Rebranded Orchestra Settles Into Its Debut Season
Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed.
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An 18th-Century Phenom Arrives at Lincoln Center
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center will play Marianna Martines’s Symphony in C, a milestone for a composer whose music mostly fell silent after her death.
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At 97, This Conductor Is Modest and Extraordinary
When Herbert Blomstedt, the oldest major conductor active today, led the Vienna Philharmonic, age was only one factor in his remarkable artistry.