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.
Since 2010, the Cowbridge Festival has been bringing classical music, jazz and folk to the community in the Vale of Glamorgan. The festival, which is now under the direction of the husband and wife team […]
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 This exhibition, Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini—in […]
The pianist Jonathan Biss, in a New York Times essay, attempts to delineate the impact on a performer of playing the late works of the two great Vienna contemporaries. He does so in an attempt […]