Speaking in a post-show chat about his opera Ohne Titel No. 1, which was performed as part of the Wi...
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Caitlin Smith
In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
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Caitlin Smith
There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
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Caitlin Smith
The late composer Fausto Romitelli, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 41 from a tragic illness,...
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Caitlin Smith
The incorporation of ideas, tone colours and material from popular music into art music compositions...
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Caitlin Smith
Focusing on the subtle, quiet textures of a small chamber ensemble in a still room can be a meditati...
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Caitlin Smith
In 1731, the British artist William Hogarth made a series of six paintings titled “A Harlot’s Progre...
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Caitlin Smith
In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
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Caitlin Smith
Šimon Voseček's operatic adaptation of Max Frisch’s 1950s play Biedermann und die Brandstifter (Bied...
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Caitlin Smith
For the past 30 years, the Toronto new music presenter Soundstreams has been commissioning, developi...
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Caitlin Smith
Benjamin Britten's exquisitely styled short operas from the mid-1960s are full of broad strokes and...
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Caitlin Smith
"What is important for the lucid ordering of the work – for its crystallization,” Igor Stravinsky te...
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Caitlin Smith
While this reporter was not quite sturdy enough to make it through the entire seven-hour evening, th...
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Caitlin Smith
The concept of combining visual and auditory elements to build a musical composition was highlighted...
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Caitlin Smith
This season marks the 100th anniversary of the Vienna Concert House, a massive building with four st...
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Caitlin Smith
The recent 2012 Grammy awards highlighted the current trend in pop music towards the commercializati...
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Caitlin Smith
One of the most pleasing aspects of listening to solo string repertoire, from Bach to Bartók, is its...
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Caitlin Smith
Stylistically, your writing covers a wide range of sounds, and you often use juxtaposition a composi...
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Caitlin Smith
am·phi·go·ry, noun [ˈamfəˌgōrē, amˈfigərē] a nonsense verse or composition a rigmarole with apparent...
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Caitlin Smith
The Talea Ensemble brought precision and warmth to an evening of chamber works by the Austrian compo...
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Caitlin Smith
