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An enormously intense, personal experience: composer Michael Zev Gordon on writing A Kind of Haunting, his new piece inspired by his family’s experience of the Holocaust
Michael Zev Gordn at site of his grandfather’s murder in Summer 1941 (image from DW video). Any human calamity raises thoughts about how such events might be referred to in music, and how an essentially […]
A critic takes a sledgehammer to a celebrated pianist
The Parisian music critic Alain Lompech (pictured) has a reputation for not respecting reputations. This week, he set his sights on the vastly popular Paris-based pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. Khatia was playing Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto […]
Brooklyn dumps arts boss
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has unseated its president Gina Duncan after a three-year term. Neither side is saying why. Duncan was the first non-white person to head BAM and she arrived with excellent qualifications. […]
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