Max Steiner, the pioneering film composer who wrote the music for “King Kong” and “Gone With the Wind,” was once complimented as the man who invented modern movie music. “Nonsense,” he replied. “The ...
Productions of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg divide audiences. Should emphasis be placed on the opera's comical elements, or is it to be seen as more of a serious play about German ...
“This is a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians,” Alex Ross says. That’s good, because I am a non-musician. Ross is the premier music critic in the United States, and Wagnerism often ...
There have been documentaries and celebrations for 100 years since the premiere of The Rite of Spring, but this year also would be the 200th birthday of the opera composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard ...
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‘Kavalier and Clay’ could be a Jewish-American ‘Ring Cycle’ — what would Richard Wagner think of it?
It begins in the old world. A fog rolls in. Statues of saints on the bridge over the Moldau have their backs to us. Facing ...
EXCLUSIVE: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German ...
Should the music of the notoriously antisemitic German composer Richard Wagner be played in Israel? In 1938, a Jewish member of the board of what was then called the Palestine Symphony asked the ...
If you were to reduce the pantheon of classical composers to a handful, one would stand out for how little his work is performed today: Richard Wagner. But you could argue that the German romantic ...
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