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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.

By Joshua Barone

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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.

By Robert D. McFadden

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How Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Children’s Music

Over seven decades, she brought a world of genres and ideas to songs for the young. On her centennial, what she would really like to do is perform again.

By Laurel Graeber

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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.

By Oussama Zahr