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Vienna
In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
Author
Caitlin Smith
There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
Author
Caitlin Smith
The late composer Fausto Romitelli, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 41 from a tragic illness,...
Author
Caitlin Smith
The incorporation of ideas, tone colours and material from popular music into art music compositions...
Author
Caitlin Smith
In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
Author
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
am·phi·go·ry, noun [ˈamfəˌgōrē, amˈfigərē] a nonsense verse or composition a rigmarole with apparent...
Author
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
I have sometimes found performances and recordings of Elliot Carter’s music to be physically trying,...
Author
Caitlin Smith
