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On the evening of May 5, I took my seat in London’s Barbican Centre to experience a programme of interplanetary music. The concert began with the world premiere of Lim Cosmic Rhapsody, a piece by composer Manu Martin, and ended with Gustav Holst’s The Planets (completed in 1916 and first performed in 1920). Athwart these large orchestral works, lasting about 50 minutes each, lay a century’s worth of knowledge about space and music. Lim Cosmic Rhapsody is a piano concerto, which aspires to tell, according to the work’s…

Here's something to think about: Why does the music that YOU love often leave another person cold? While I agree with much of what you say I also think you have left out the most important point: Music expresses and communicates identity of soul. It is NOT profoundly personal but rather a community of soul. I think I love Wagner's music just as much as he did himself. Indeed, sometimes I even think I could have COMPOSED this music if only historical accidents had let me. More, sometimes I even have the strange conviction…

The pursuit of the dream of classical music is not an equal playing field. My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face, which are unknown to their city-based counterparts. There are systemic music inequalities in Australia based on where you live and where you go to school. Inner-city, private school kids are often the most likely to access music education. Kids living in rural areas are the least likely to have music opportunities. Music inequality also exists…

Submitted by jsdubois015 on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 15:32 I'm sitting here listening to the Bach suites for cello performed by one of the greats, Mstislav Rostropovich. While I greatly admire the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms and the operas of Wagner, it is the music for the lone performer that intrigues me the most. Being a trombonist, much of my performance experience has been as part of a group, be it an orchestra or wind ensemble, or a smaller chamber group. Although I do enjoy the ensemble…

Classical music is surprisingly controversial. For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social domination”. To controversy, we can add contradiction! We love to hear the instruments and idioms of classical music in film and television (think of the theme from The Crown or the music from the Harry Potter films), but experience has shown classical music is most effective at repelling loiterers from public spaces. Engaging with the…

norman lebrecht November 16, 2022 The racial-theory New York musicologist Philip Ewell is on the prowl again. He has just been given a glowing report in Yale News. Read this: His father, a Black intellectual who attended Morehouse University with Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1948, was “committed to excellence” for himself and his children. In the mid-20th century, Ewell explained over Zoom, the conceptions of excellence by which he was surrounded were deeply intertwined with ideals of whiteness and…

Submitted by jsdubois015 on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 10:02 I recently had a rather interesting conversation with a friend of mine. She is currently going through law school and has a keen interest in politics. We each also share an interest for the other's respective fields; me for politics and she for the arts. Our conversation centered around basically the current state of affairs in the world and, regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on, the eminent disasters the…