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From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating ...
The true story behind the creation of a 20th-century musical masterpiece. This program tells the gripping true story behind the creation of a 20th-century musical masterpiece: Alban Berg’s ...
The sound world they explore together as Microplastique combines two streams of emancipatory mid-20th-century musical practice.
Then the accordions struck the music world with increased popularity in the early 20th century and concertinas were squeezed — yes, I said that — out of the market and by the middle of the ...
Like all 20th-century musical -isms, minimalism has its drawbacks—endless repetition for one—but in the hands of masters like Arvo Part, Reich, Glass, and Adams it can be a maximal experience. 912.558 ...
Keyboards, crankshafts and communication, the musical mindset of western technology / Geoffrey Hindley -- Electronic instruments--classifications and mechanisms / Hugh Davies -- 'It all began with a ...
The Choral Arts Society of Washington paid homage on Sunday to 20th-century musical works that have become classics of the 21st-century repertoire. The event included performances of Igor ...