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While Arthur Berger (b. 1912) is one of the most […]
Composed in 1916, Eileen remains highly esteemed by connoisseurs of operetta, and for good reason: It’s a delightful work. Victor Herbert used to be possibly
Rick Benjamin’s reconstruction of Scott Joplin’s lone surviving opera Treemonisha from the existing vocal/piano score is nothing less than a revelation of historical research and
Bach’s Goldbergs and Beethoven’s Diabellis either have intimidated or seduced composers into trying their hands at writing piano variation sets of unusually long duration. Recent
Lou Harrison’s original compositions for gamelan are wonderful, but I wouldn’t recommend listening to them all at a single sitting since the limitations of the
The eight extended chamber works that comprise the late James Tenney’s series of Spectrum Pieces are each based upon a single harmonic series and are
How to describe Christian Wolff’s piano idiom? Sparse, terse, usually dry, more rhythmically elaborate than its surface style reveals. There’s little charm, although some of
The world premiere of George Rochberg’s’s 1972 Third Quartet caused a stir in critical and academic circles. Here was a highly respected and much commissioned
Although Gordon Mumma (born 1935) is best known as an electronic music composer and instrument builder, he also has written extensively for piano solo. Most
It has taken a long time for an outstanding set of Persichetti’s 12 piano sonatas to make it to CD, but Geoffrey Burleson’s performances certainly
