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Last Chance ! Songs for a Mad King

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Basel pays hommage to the neglected music and provocative personality of the American musician, singer, and composer Julius Eastman (1940 – 1990).

19 Mar 2013

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

If Srauss waltzes in gilded concert halls, or massive crowds roaming and shouting about public squares are 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.

18 Dec 2012

Editor's Pick: It's John. John Cage

A visual arts exhibition and concerts in Stuttgart mark the 100th year of the birth of the avant-garde music pioneer.

Double-Header for San Francisco and The Thomashefskys

Joel Kasow reviews the PBS television bash for the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco Orchestra and The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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