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.
Posted inAppointments and Executive Changes Bennington College Classical Music Culture (Arts) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts New York City Silver, Mariko Timms, Henry
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.
Posted inClassical Music Der Ring des Nibelungen (Opera) Gelb, Peter Metropolitan Opera Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera Sharon, Yuval (1979- )
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.
Posted inBerlioz, Hector Classical Music La Damnation de Faust (Opera) Les Troyens (Opera) Opera Symphonie Fantastique (Musical Work)
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.