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8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master A composer of famously thorny music had two failed forays into ballet, given fresh reconsideration on a new album. Elliott Carter’s score for “The Minotaur,” above, premiered in 1947 by the company that would become New York City Ballet, was written in a style that he would soon abandon.Credit...Larry Colwell Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021 The composer Elliott Carter, looking back on his early balle...

Winemakers, like artists and musicians, know how to wring something bright from murky times Every cloud has a silver lining, and Hungarian Furmint is something we can all enjoy.  Dirk Muggenburg / millennium images, uk Before I found Furmint, the Hungarians I loved were mostly monochrome photographers. Perhaps because their language relates to no other in Europe (except, faintly, to Finnish), many émigrés took up cameras to communicate. André Kertesz, Brassaï and the great Robert Capa...