The death has been announced of John Titta, chief creative officer and of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He had struggled with cancer for the past two years.
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Vaughan Williams had a great fondness for Shakespeare and settings of Shakespeare’s texts thread their way through the composer’s life, from the songs The Willow Song (1897), and Orpheus With His Lute (1903), to the larger scale Serenade to […]
In Toronto last night, during the National Youth Orchestra of Canada’s concert, violinist Justin Saulnier had his E peg pop in the middle of Prokofiev’s second concerto. Not missing a beat, he swapped instruments with […]
It is important to listen to consider and absorb the music of our time. For some hat means a post-Modern construct; which can be relatively easy on the ear; for others (I remember, notably in […]
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