The Bolshoi has announced the death of Rodion Shchedrin, Russia’s most successful composer of the late and post-Communist eras. Although open to modernist ideas in his composition and teaching, and refusing to join the Communist […]
Handel Hendrix House (Photo: Christopher Ison) We don’t know how George Frideric Handel celebrated Christmas, but certainly Queen Charlotte brought the idea of the Christmas tree to England when she married King George III in […]
The Israel composer Oded Zehavi attended the dress rehearsal today of György Kurtag’s late opera, Fin de Partie: There are similarities between Endgame and Wozzeck. Musical interpretation of great literary text is not easy: it […]