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Eek! The Modernists! Run For Your Lives!

Jed Distler

Modernism in classical music tends to be associated with craggy dissonance, total serialism, and academic composers writing pieces with pretentious titles followed by Roman numerals,

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Little Warmth On Brokeback Mountain

Robert Levine

If ever there were a story that deserves cinematic and operatic treatment, it is Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain. A story of impossible, forbidden (read: homosexual)

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The Ocean that has no West and no East

ClassicsToday

The poetic title of this CD conceals an attractive anthology of 20th century piano music, continuously balanced between East and West and cleverly presented by

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Dausgaard Plays A Mean Mahler 10

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

A Mahler Cycle From–You Guessed It–Dusseldorf

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

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CD From Hell: Bad Transfers of Kletzki’s Embarrassing Mahler 1 and 9

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related