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Editor's Pick: John Cage at 100

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in Los Angeles hosts two nights of rarely played music—including large-scale works by the avant-garde pioneer.

3 Feb 2012

Editor's Pick: New Year's Eve Te Deum in Lisbon

If massive crowds roaming and shouting about public squares is not your idea of how to bring in the New Year, the sung Te Deum at the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon might be an alternative well worth considering.

26 Dec 2011

Review: Festival de Sceaux

In the 17th century French atmosphere of its exceptionally beautiful surroundings, the Festival de Sceaux attracts locals, Parisians and international tourists in the know.

30 Sep 2011

Editor's Pick: Varèse (R)evolution at the Lincoln Center Festival

Complicated to perform, the ingenious music of Edgard Varèse is always a risky affair for a conductor, orchestra and soloists. New York takes up the challenge of his complete works this summer.

Piano Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanities

In Sydney, a piano is ripped from its pianist, found guilty of treachery, deported and brutally executed by hanging.

To Hell and Back: Louis Andriessen’s "La Commedia"

The Dutch composer's 2008 'film opera' takes its New York bow at Carnegie Hall.

Dudamel in Paris: An Unforgettable Debut

Venezuelan phenomenon Gustavo Dudamel (along with more than 100 of his young countrymen and women) makes his Paris debut, bringing a stunned and enraptured audience to its feet.

How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Music Festival

Each year, Switzerland's Verbier Festival is less about serious music and more about serious wealth, under-rehearsed and questionable artistic choices. Luckily, some true gems can still be found amidst the glittery mountain of zircons.

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A Recital of French Art Song

It has never seemed to me that the French art song, the mélodie, is suited to concert halls.... This musical form is in fact a privileged way of reciting poetry. The trouble is that singers like singing and only too often, that's what they do: sing, and go hang the words. The art of performing mélodie is to enhance the poetry with sung sounds.

ANTON WEBERN RETROSPECTIVE AT LYON: COMPLETE, AND THEN SOME ...

The Orchestre National de Lyon embarks on projects that are not only interesting on paper but also work out in practice. After the complete works of Edgard Varï¿½e two years ago - less than two hours of music, in fact - came the idea of presenting the complete works of Anton Webern - just under four hours for the official canon - during a three-week period.

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