Hadley, Thompson, et al. in the Berkshires
Synopsis Tanglewood is one of America’s most famous summertime classical music festivals and can boast a long and impressive list of premier...
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Composers Datebook
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20 of 157 episodesLibby Larsen’s Trio
Synopsis Angel Fire is a village in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, home to ski slopes and hiking trails, plus a summer mountain-bike par...
Bingham's Secret Garden
Synopsis At the BBC Proms on today’s date in 2004 Proms a new piece by the British composer Judith Bingham was premiered by the BBC Chorus....
Jacopo Peri and early opera
Synopsis Details on the lives and careers of composers born before 1700 tend to be a bit skimpy, at best. For example, we know Italian Baroq...
Edward Collins escapes to Wisconsin
Synopsis In the 19th century, anybody who had the means would flee the stifling heat of the cities and head for someplace green and shady an...
Monteverdi gets mugged (and a new job)
Synopsis August 1613 proved to be an especially eventful month in the life and career of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. The previous s...
Arvo Part's "Brothers" in Salzburg
Synopsis In 1980, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt emigrated from his Soviet-controlled homeland and settled in Austria. Since the 1960s, Pärt’s...
Gershwin and Daugherty go Latin
Synopsis In the 1950s, if you said the words “Cuban music,” perhaps Desi Arnez, a.k.a. Ricky Ricardo, singing Babaloo might come to mind. Th...
Leon Theremin's good vibrations
Synopsis When a flying saucer circled over Washington, D.C. in the classic 1951 sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still , it did so to mu...
A posthumous premiere for Richard Strauss
Synopsis There was a time when German opera houses would have fought over the chance to premiere an opera by Richard Strauss. But by 1940, w...
Of Wagner, Tubas and Gyorgy Kurtag
Synopsis It’s said that nature abhors a vacuum — and so, apparently, did Richard Wagner, who devised a brass instrument to bridge a gap he p...
Edison, for the record
Synopsis Some have claimed that it was on today’s date in 1877 that the American inventor Thomas Edison recorded his own voice reciting, “Ma...
Johann Strauss in Salzburg (and Vienna)
Synopsis As the proverbial saying goes: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” It was, frankly, a matter of economic necessity that led 36-...
William Henry Fry
Synopsis On today’s date in 1813, William Henry Fry was born in Philadelphia. As a journalist, he was one of the most vociferous champions o...
'Morning Revisited' by Raksin
Synopsis If your dad wrote music for silent movies and you also want to write music, does that increase the odds you’ll end up a film compos...
Poulenc's 'Model Animals'
Synopsis Just about any time is a good time to be in Paris, but chances are, given your druthers, you wouldn’t have chosen to be there in 19...
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Quintet
Synopsis On today’s date in 1893, a talented Italian composer died of tuberculosis at 39. His name was Alfredo Catalani, and, in his short l...
Rebecca Clarke
Synopsis In 1942, the 19th Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music was held in Berkeley, California. Over 30 composers...
Musgrave's Postcard
Synopsis On today’s date in 2012, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC’s Scottish Symphony, under the direction of Scottish conductor...
William Schuman, Chairman of the Board
Synopsis By the time of his death in 1998, pop singer Frank Sinatra was such a domineering figure in his field that he was known as “The Cha...