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This month, Chamber Music on the Fox will bring its largest concert of the season to the stage: “Capriccio.” Named in honor of the centerpiece composition, Leoš Janácek’s Capriccio for ...
West Chester was home to Samuel Barber, who is considered by many to be the greatest musical composer of the 20th century, ...
Grażyna Bacewicz’s music is finally coming to public attention, and here, Marina Frolova-Walker helps things along a little ...
Featuring pieces by 20th and 21st century composers, Spokane Symphony's next Masterworks concert is jazzy, rhythmic and uniquely American By E.J. Iannelli ...
The concept of background or “ambient” music has a long pedigree. The idea was coined by one of France’s most eccentric ...
Eisler’s life and career were closely bound up with the vicissitudes of the international class struggle in the first half of the 20th century.
This Friends of Chamber Music program mingles Diehl’s own jazz and classical works with music by 20th century classical composers William Grant Still, Florence Price, Claude Debussy, Philip ...
A blazingly original major 20th-century composer, rediscovered Grażyna Bacewicz was a major talent, unjustly overlooked. With a brilliant new CD of her 3rd and 4th symphonies, her time has arrived ...
Burt Bacharach, Peerless Pop Composer, Dies at 94 One of the most accomplished pop music craftsmen of the 20th century, Bacharach, passed away on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles.