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When Bernstein conducted Stravinsky, modern music came alive The composer Igor Stravinsky in New York, in 1964. A box set of recordings pairs Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, with the conductor Leonard Bernstein, who championed his works. Sam Falk/The New York Times. by Anthony Tommasini (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- On April 6, 1971, a balmy spring day in New Haven, Connecticut, I arrived at the main building of the Yale School of Music a little late for a piano lesson. But I stopped at the front door. Someone had tacked up a small white note card: “Igor Stravinsky died today.” Those four wor...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Regist...

Three Movements, a VR playground, opens at Old Montreal's Phi Centre A ride aboard the International Space Station, music-making building blocks, pop-up books that come to life, and a lot more can be found at the Phi Centre's latest. Author of the article: JP Karwacki Publishing date: Mar 31, 2021  •  12 hours ago  •  2 minute read  •  Acqua Alta, part of Phi Centre's Three Movements exhibition. Photo by Adrien M & Claire B Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made thro...

How the legendary musician Astor Piazzolla put a touch of Bach into tango The larger-than-life Argentine, who would have turned 100 in March, brought his early training in classical music to everything he did. 5 hours ago Earlier this month was the birth centenary of the larger-than-life Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger Astor Piazzolla (March 11, 1921-July 4, 1992). To mark the anniversary, The Strad, a classical music magazine in the UK, carried a tribute article headlined “How should we interpret tango music?” that offered classically trained violinists tip...

Wagner’s Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here. 1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored: Jalbert’s Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry. Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec, Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deco...