Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man Born on this day in 1900, Aaron Copland was 90 when he died in 1990. Often referred to as the “Dean of American Composers”, he wrote in a […]
The composer Georges Delerue attended Olivier Messiaen’s class at the Paris Conservatoire alongside Pierre Boulez. Both reached their centenary this year. Delerue became a prolific c omposer for film and TV with more than 350 […]
A symphony should be like the world, it should encompass everything. So said Mahler himself, and his ambitious First Symphony sets out to do exactly that. We have previously looked at Bychkov’s Fourth and Fifth […]