These “Complete String Quartets” by American composer John Zorn aren’t really string quartets – at least not in the traditional sense. These are, more accurately, a collection of 8 named pieces for string quartet. (There is […]
The Fedora Prize was awarded last night at the Vienna State Opera to The Curing Line, by the Irish composer Michael Gallen. The Fedora is worth €100,000, the largst prize for new opera. Sung in […]
The unsettlingly slow avantgardist Alexander Knaifel died today suddenly at the age of 80. He made his living writing for Soviet movies and his reputation with two Eng-lit operas, operas The Ghost of Canterville and […]