The death has been communicated of Barbara Kolb, a prominent American modernist. She was among the first Americans to work with Pierre Boulez at his IRCAM institute in Paris.
This may save a lot of rehearsal time. From today’s programme release: When the Swiss composer Michael Jarrell came across Kassandra, a 1983 novella by the East German author Christa Wolf, his initial idea was to […]
Alice Farnham with members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and members of the RPS Women Conductors programme at the Glasshouse including Charlotte Corderoy In 2014, conductor Alice Farnham formed the Women Conductors programme, initially at […]
A study by researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome has detected ‘a trend of simplification across all music genres’. ‘Our analysis indicates that even enduring genres like classical and jazz have undergone a noticeable […]