To THE EDITOR: In the list of works by women composers, based on the Schwann catalog, which accompanied Pauline Oliver os's article, I was amazed and shocked by the omission of the Concerto for Cembalo and Orchestra by Wilhelmine, Markgrafin von Bayreuth (1709 1758), one of the most important pieces of music ever written by a woman.
And this is even before we get into the murky issue of how cultural overlays will colour the assumptions that women might make about fictitious composers, based on a tiny snippet of 'their' tunes.
With the explosive growth of digital music data being stored and easily reachable on the cloud, as well as the increased interest in affective and cognitive computing, identifying composers based on their musical work is an interesting challenge for machine learning and artificial intelligence to explore.
A tragicomic opera by a leading Vienna-based composer, based on a classic literary theme, is a highlight of this weekend at Caramoor.
After intermission the mood turned dark again with Medtner's "Gone Are My Heart's Desires," one of five songs on the program that the composer based on poems by Pushkin and Goethe.
LES TROYENS, two-part opera in five acts, by Hector Berlioz, libretto by the composer based on Virgil's "Aeneid"; conductor, Myung Whun Chung; direction, sets and costumes by Pier-Luigi Pizzi; choreography by Micha Van Hoecke; choral director, Andrea Giorgi.
When an Estonian television station approached producer Paul Smaczny last year with the idea of making a documentary about the composer based on the music-theatre production Pärt's Adam's Passion directed by Robert Wilson, a lifelong wish finally came true.
LES TROYENS Opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz, libretto by the composer based on Virgil's "Aeneid"; conductor, James Levine; production by Francesca Zambello; sets by Maria Bjornson; costumes by Anita Yavich; lighting by James F. Ingalls; choreography by Doug Varone.
As well as "Ein Parzival" and "Der Rosenkavalier", a perennial opera favourite, its opening weekend included the premiere of an ambitious new opera by Philip Glass, an influential American composer, based on a play by Peter Handke, a celebrated Austrian avant-garde author, and new productions of the popular musical "The Witches of Eastwick".
There's Angry Sondheim, who rages against jukebox musicals and touts his own well-acknowledged genius; Jimmy Collins, a foul-mouthed musical-theatre composer, based on a character from the second season of "Smash"; and Annoying Actor Friend, a nightmare version of a self-promoting chorus boy, whose tweets have already been turned into the book "#SOBLESSED".
Geertzen and van Zaanen [9] applied grammatical inference (GI) to automatically recognize composer based on learning recurring patterns in the musical pieces.
