Category: News

• Martin Scorsese's new film 'Shutter Island' has bold soundtrack

  Feb 13

  Alex Ross of The New Yorker notes that millions of Americans will enjoy music by an unusually long list of intrepid composers when Martin Scorsese’s film “Shutter Island,” starring Leonardo… more ›

• Premiere at last for Prokofiev's pre-Stalin War and Peace opera

  Feb 13

  Completed – or so he thought – at the moment of his country’s greatest peril with Hitler’s forces camped in the Moscow suburbs, Sergei Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War… more ›

• Nico Muhly and Craig Lucas opera based on a real Internet murder plot

  Feb 13

  The composer Nico Muhly and the playwright Craig Lucas have crossed the finish line first. Their opera, based on a real Internet murder plot, will be the first to be… more ›

• Ensemble ACJW @ Le Poisson Rouge

  Feb 13

  IN its modest, underground way a concert that the young musicians of the Ensemble ACJW gave on a brisk night in December at Le Poisson Rouge, the Greenwich Village club… more ›

• Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon scores a Grammy

  Feb 13

  Among the Grammy winners this year was Jennifer Higdon, a Philadelphia-based composer whose Percussion Concerto received the award for best new contemporary classical recording on Sunday. [2008 recording on Spotify… more ›

• Corruption, intrigue… and that's before the Wagner's even begun

  Feb 9

  A scandal of Wagnerian proportions has engulfed Salzburg’s music festival, just weeks before Sir Simon Rattle conducts the German composer’s opera Götterdämmerung, a tale of corruption and downfall that now… more ›

• Why Helsinki needs a new concert hall [video]

  Feb 4

  A concert hall that’s no good for concerts. That’s the problem in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Builders are now hard at work and millions are being spent to replace the… more ›

• Daniel Barenboim: See his hands in action

  Feb 4

  This footage is truly extraordinary. Here is Daniel Barenboim, the celebrated pianist and conductor, playing a very tricky trill with one hand, while conducting an orchestra with the other. more ›

• New Chamber Music Salon in Copenhagen

  Jan 30

  Tonight, Copenhagen gets a new salon for the chamber music society: Den Collinske Gaard. Greater Copenhagen already has around 15 venues, but very few privately owned. It is located in… more ›

• Marin Alsop will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in this new performance

  Jan 26

  The Frans Lanting Studio announced the London Premiere of the multimedia production of LIFE: A Journey Through Time, which will be performed for a special evening “Celebrating Our Planet,” on… more ›