Who can’t relate, at least a little bit, to the heartsick clown Pierrot? This character has his origins in 16th century Commedia dell’arte. With a heart as fragile as a...
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Musical irony is deeply idiomatic to Shostakovich’s compositional style. It often manifests within the framework of Jewish existential irony, a viewpoint that is hopeful by nature but also self-aware. While...
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was a prize-winning composer, author, educator, and two-time Academy Award nominee. He was also a wanderer, ever in search of a place where he could work without...
Dreaming has long been associated with artistic production as well; both processes are the expression of creative unconscious instincts. Indeed, stories of musical compositions inspired by dreams abound....
The addition of jazz to the Guarneri Hall lineup might come as a surprise to regular audience members. While jazz performance at a classical chamber music venue may seem unconventional,...
George Crumb completed Black Angels in 1970 during the height of the Vietnam War, which looms throughout in its sounds and structure. With numerological implications, obsessive symmetries, palindromes, and quotations,...
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