Schoenberg’s folk music and Stockhausen’s dead horse

The German Music Information Center has published a survey showing that 16.3 million people aged six and ove regularly play music, around 21 percent of the population. What is striking is that the figure is […]

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 […]

From Bruce Duffie’s 1990 interview in Chicago with the Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who died this week: RS: I must tell you little story. I know Shostakovich personally, himself, because my father a few years […]