One online critic compared Abbado’s Mahler to Rattle’s by saying that the former was an optimist while the latter was a pessimist, and it is true that a certain amount…
Thus I decided to plunge further into the book, looking for word clues to break the cryptogram codes. 2 of this series, hoping that in it Iman will move on…
The Bob Crewe Program in Art and Music enables students to explore the deep relationship between art and music. Made possible by the largest gift in the College’s 132 year…
Writing such reflective, slow music for the last movement is surely unusual, but in time the tempo doubles as both lower strings and winds in the orchestra play syncopated figures.…
The role requires that the character be one hundred pc bare at one level, the full monty, in front of 1,600 folks in the theater. It may also be filmed…
It definitely seems to be closer to the definition of art than music in my opinion anyway. Gottfried von Leibniz (1646–1716), music reflected a universal rhythm and mirrored a reality…
The process of creating mood in visual art can be relayed by a painter through the use of a range of colours in a particular palate chosen by an artist.…
It’s almost like hearing a recording in mono sound—very good, clear mono, but still mono—compared with state-of-the-art digital stereo. She just gets more out of her orchestra and, with that…
Here, the harpsichord plays rambling, circular figures, busy music that basically goes nowhere. Weinberg continues to play with this phone-ringing motif on and off throughout the movement. Projecting deep feeling…
This belief, however, doesn't explain why music and art can evoke emotion in the audience if it's not simply due to an exploitation of more basic senses. With dancefloors in…