Classical Music – Page 50

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.

By Robert D. McFadden

Classical Music Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center Heyward, Jonathon (Conductor) Prieto, Carlos Miguel Sorrell, Jeannette

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.

By Oussama Zahr

Classical Music Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center Heyward, Jonathon (Conductor) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Martines, Marianna Women and Girls

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.

By Garrett Schumann

Blomstedt, Herbert Classical Music Salzburg Festival Vienna Philharmonic

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.

By Joshua Barone