Luciano Berio News

Tigran Mansurian and Kim Kashkashian, both of Armenian descent, are marking more than two decades of collaboration.

It's always fascinating to see how non-classical musicians respond to classical fare.

"It's always fascinating to see how non-classical musicians respond to classical fare.

The Berkshire Symphony will perform on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus.

Take a moment to remember Claude LA©vi-Strauss, a social scientist who took music seriously, indeed as a model for the discernment of structure in cultural artifacts that do not speak for themselves.

The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, founded in 1841, is just a year older than the New York Philharmonic , but with its avowed specialty - music of the Viennese Classical era - this ensemble makes the conservative Philharmonic look like a wild-eyed new-music band.

New Haven New Music 8 p.m., Oct. 8. Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall, Yale University.

Scottish Ballet is celebrating its 40th birthday. I have been following its progress for all those years, from the time of Peter Darrell's grand endeavours to establish the troupe, by way of subsequent disappointments to its present identity under Ashley Page's direction, and I do not think that the company has ever danced with greater assurance ...

The Kings Place electro-acoustic weekend opened with a potential killer-question from its presenter Robert Worby: was it not high time we stopped talking about 'electro-acoustic' music altogether? As he pointed out, these days sound emerges everywhere from loudspeakers: whether coming directly from instruments, or electronically piped to us in a ...

The sound of a woodwind quintet is a sound like no other. Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon can blend in astonishing ways and achieve countless textures.

James Miller, who teaches trombone at UNC School of the Arts, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Watson Hall on campus.

This rambling rant was my comment inflicted on the Jazz: Music of Unemployment post " The world we have lost "; I thought I'd take a page from Luciano Berio and " Say it again, LOUDER " over here.

Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, ...

A new addition to the company's repertoire in William Forysthe's hyperkinetic Workwithinwork completes this special anniversary triumvirate from a range of dancer-turned-choreographers at their most sublime.

Audiences at the New Music New College contemporary music series are the beneficiaries of the curriculum being offered to music students at New College of Florida.

Guilty pleasures and embarrassing secrets are out! Gimme Noise has jacked a handful of iPods and are exposing the goods for all to see.

Confusion should be a constant visitor at major musical competitions. Otherwise, the screening committee hasn't done its job of finding the strongest contestants.

The classical concert will begin 8 p.m. at the Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St.

Saturated with lachrymose melodies, dirgelike rhythms and the ghastly, fatal oompahs of sad waltzes, the songs and symphonies of Gustav Mahler prophetically mourn the victims of twentieth-century catastrophes the composer died too soon to witness, or perhaps even imagine.

The Dutch composer and pianist Louis Andriessen was born on 6 June 1939 in Utrecht.