Jan 21 Blog In Memoriam: Claudio Abbado Music lovers in America woke up Monday morning to the news that the great Italian conductor Claudio Abbado had passed during the night. The beloved maestro died in his home in Bologna at the age of eighty. Soon after the news broke, the Berlin Philharmonic, of which he was the principle conductor for thirteen years, […] By WUOL Jan 21 Blog In Memoriam: Claudio Abbado By WUOL
Jan 21 Blog Rafal Blechacz and the Secret Gilmore Award Don’t worry, it’s not the beginning of a new series by J.K. Rowling, just the story of a Polish pianist and one of the classical music world’s more peculiar prizes. Created in 1989 in honor of Irving S. Gilmore, The Gilmore Artist Award is given every four years to an outstanding pianist. Here’s the catch: […] By WUOL Jan 21 Blog Rafal Blechacz and the Secret Gilmore Award By WUOL
Jan 21 Blog New Releases for the New Year This strange new world of 2014 has already produced several new vocal albums by some of the opera world’s biggest fish. So if you’re still in search of worthy purchases for that cash you got from returning unwanted Christmas presents, here are two options to consider and one to ridicule: Jonas Kaufmann: The Verdi Album With the […] By WUOL Jan 21 Blog New Releases for the New Year By WUOL
Jan 13 Blog George Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Music Critic Nobel Prize winner George Bernhard Shaw is best known for his contributions to the theatrical arts. However, long before he ever began writing Arms and the Man or Pygmalion, while he was still struggling to support himself financially with a literary career, he worked as a music critic in London. During this lesser-known period of […] By WUOL Jan 13 Blog George Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Music Critic By WUOL
Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices Art often turns to itself for inspiration. An interdisciplinary approach to creating art has been used for ages, be it paintings of Ophelia drowned or Mussorgsky’s musical rendering of Pictures at an Exhibition. From the first operas written on the story of Orpheus to Stephen Sondheim’s depiction of the life of painter Georges Seurat in […] By WUOL Jan 06 Blog Claudel Lives Again in Heggie’s Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices By WUOL