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Markus Rathey discusses the organ works of Ligeti, especially Volumina, Music Ricercata, Etudes

One could soundly advise any choreographer to avoid music so transcendentally great in itself that dance can add nothing except banal images. Only a handful of exceptions sneak past the rule: MacMillan’s setting of Song of the Earth, perhaps, and also Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier, his audacious attempt to visualise the infinitely slow movement

The ballot for the Columbus city elections will have a few more names after some recent additions.

Snap Jacksons love for music and photography fuels passion for art.

With "roots plus culture," Ricky Hopkins counters the overproduction and consumption that have made fashion one of the world’s largest polluters.

The Central Alberta Chamber Orchestra will perform two winter blues-busting concerts in the region in February.

Celsius Resources (ASX:CLA) has announced some board changes and the sale of the Cullarin project in New South Wales.

2021-04-27T20:05:00 The discovery of part of an autograph manuscript for Ysaÿe’s little-known Second String Trio op.34 hidden in a folder on his computer led violinist Nandor Szederkényi eventually to produce a performing edition. Here he shares details of the painstaking process Have you heard Eugène Ysaÿe’s wonderful Second String Trio? After a short pause, some of you might answer: ‘There’s a string trio called something like “Le Chimay”, but I don’t really know it ...

About a year and a half ago, Efren Cortez took center stage at Couch House, opening for Hail Varsity and worlds greatest dad. He introduced himself and his black electric bass he named Toothless, joking that the crowd is about to witness a two-piece act. He matched his bass guitar with his black Vans, shorts and graphic tee. It’s then that the onlookers realized Cortez was on stage alone with nothing but an empty drum kit behind him. He brushed his pale green hair out of his face and began...