OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius Eastman’s “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” a harrowing solo vocal work ...
Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...
London has more world-famous symphony orchestras than any other city in the world ... The Victorian era saw a proliferation of classical music organisations, beginning with the Philharmonic Society, ...
As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of ... One piece featured players from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Beijing’s Central Conservatory ...
The future: Guildhall Gold Medal finalists clarinettist Kosuke Shirai, double bass player Strahinja Mitrović (the winner) and harpist Heather Brooks Clive Totman ...
Born in 1964 into a Shanghai musical family, Yu was hailed by The New York Times as "the most powerful figure in China's classical music scene", who has been consistently introducing the world's ...