The US violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2014, has been co-opted by the Curtis Institute as its first ‘visiting faculty member’. He will devote one residency each semester to mentoring […]
The Composers Edition website handily explains the musical term Acousmatic as follows: A predominately European term Acousmatic simply refers to musical works which exist solely as audio or ‘fixed’ media, now most commonly delivered […]
A reaction to the Trump awards from the composer and pianist David Chesky: Once upon a time—say, in 1978—the Kennedy Center Honors were a kind of secular cathedral service for American genius. Marian Anderson, Fred […]