“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...
When you hear the name Charles Fox, his name alone might not spark your memory, but his music is heard everywhere. We've been inviting his music into our homes for decades, with some of the greatest ...
First full-length biography of composer Arthur Schwartz. Covers his work on Broadway and in Hollywood with lyricists Howard Dietz, Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer ...
Including the Hidden Muse Behind The Nutcracker NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / Being Pyotr Ilyich: Tchaikovsky’s Inner Life, Revealed by Himself 130 Years Later, authored by ...
Werner Richard Heymann was the most famous film composer in Germany and France until 1933. His music was everywhere. You could hear it from the orchestra pits of the great theatre stages and on the ...
Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Now the multilateral champ — francophone, anglophone, living or dead — is surely Claude Vivier. He is ...
When considering the great classical composers of our time, the name Felix Mendelssohn gets lost amid such contemporaries as Schumann and Chopin. Although Mendelssohn's accomplishments such as his ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood? At the beginning of Siegfried, the third opera in ...
Fleeing the rise of the Third Reich, composer Arnold Schoenberg landed in the United States as that most American of arrivals: a refugee. Settling with his family in southern California and teaching ...
Tim Page is a professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern California. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1997 for his writings about music for the Washington Post. An ideal ...
"In the history of art,” observed the philosopher Theodor Adorno mischievously, “late works are the catastrophes.” Not disasters: catastrophes — a spectacular subversion of an artist’s oeuvre, all ...