We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...
When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this ...
I love composer anniversaries because they afford us opportunities to look at musicians anew, and 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. It's quite possible ...
The reputation of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who died of septicemia in 1915 at age 43, has undergone seismic shifts during the past century. Early success was based on his irresistible ...
Salonen, the LA Phil's Conductor Laureate—who will begin a five-year term as Creative Director beginning in the 2026/27 season—joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, pianist ...
I recently posted a piece on Chopin and Baden Powell and how musically (I mean in terms of feeling, psychic and sonic imagery) they can be connected. [audio:http ...
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It always seems slightly macabre that we should make such a song and dance about a composer’s demise. But 2015 marks the centenary of Scriabin’s death, and, since the catalogue is by no means as ...
We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...