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.
The proto-modernist Frederik van Rossum died this week leaving a body of mostly piano works and a bevy of publishers whom he sacked. His In memoriam Glenn Gould for piano, opus 43 of 1984 deserves […]
Kings Place’s 17th instalment in its year-long Unwrapped series will be exploring our relationship with nature and the eco-system, plant life and ornithology, the climate crisis, activism, protest and more, through music and spoken word. Earth Unwrapped, […]
Winner of the 1965 Leventritt Competition at Carnegie Hall, with Leonard Bernstein on the jury, Han Tong-il was the first Korean to come top in any international piano contest. Son of a timpanist in the […]