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David Lumsdaine obituary

Australian composer long resident in Britain whose music uses complex means to produce a direct result

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024

Who Has The Most Grammys? List Of Top Artists With Most Award Wins

Explore the details of Grammy winners with the highest number of wins in history.

International Business Times · Jan 3, 2024

Let it all out! Tears for Fears inspire ‘utopian’ dance show

Emmanuel Gat explains why it’s easier to choreograph to Pierre Boulez than pop music and how his dancers perform ‘with a question mark not an exclamation mark’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2023

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Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 16, 2023

Nicholas Snowman obituary

Arts administrator who founded the London Sinfonietta and led the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2023

No one can match the BBC Singers. Axing them is an act of vandalism

The ensemble is lauded across the classical world. The BBC Singers inspire, educate and entertain, and their closure matters to us all. Here is why

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2023

Who are the top Grammy winners of all time after Beyonce breaks record?

The singing superstar overtakes British-Hungarian conductor Georg Solti as the most decorated artist in Grammys history

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2023

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Ned Rorem, prize-winning composer and writer, dies at 99

Composer Ned Rorem has died at 99

The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2022

Sam Byers: ‘JM Coetzee made me vegetarian’

The novelist on being inspired by the Beats, discovering Chekhov, and taking notes from Pierre Boulez

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2022

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 26, 2022

Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary

Composer renowned as a great modernist whose music is imbued with stubborn power and a sense of unreachable mystery

The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2022

Punk legend Iggy Pop and Paris-based Ensemble intercontemporain win Polar Prize

US punk icon Iggy Pop and the French contemporary music Ensemble intercontemporain founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez have won Sweden's Polar Music Prize.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 9, 2022

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