It was composed in 1899 and premiered in the composer's native Finland, reaching an international audience the following year.
After a stint at the University of Michigan, she returned to California and went to CalArts, where she found a mentor in the composer Michael Pisaro.
October 29 2013 November 2 201313 This former Mark Morris dancer, blessed with an eye for whimsy, has found a kindred spirit in the composer Erik Satie.
Rossini's up-tempo moments caught the attention of the student orchestra, though often it didn't seem very interested in the composer or his opera.
Mr. Cardona has long been interested in such juxtapositions, and he's found a fruitful pair of collaborators in the composer Phil Kline and the lighting designer Roderick Murray.
Constant has champions in the composer Anthony Korf and the conductor George Rothman, the artistic director and the music director of the Riverside Symphony, founded in 1981.
Thomas also gets a nod in the composer Burt Bacharach's new memoir, "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (and why not, as Bacharach shared a Best Song Academy Award in 1970 for "Raindrops," in big part because of Thomas's recording).
The 3-D is sometimes less than transporting, and the chanting voices in the composer Ernst Reijseger's new-agey score tended to remind me of my last spa massage.
In the late sixties, the conductor Raymond Leppard began mounting Cavalli operas at the Glyndebourne Festival, in England; his colleagues Jane Glover and Alan Curtis took an interest in the composer at the same time.
The formative event in the composer Allen Shawn's life happened when he was 8 years old: His twin sister, Mary, who was mentally disabled, was sent away, abruptly disappearing from his daily life.
Mozart is a special favorite of armchair diagnosticians, Dr. Lucien R. Karhausen wrote in 2010 after tabulating articles reporting 140 possible causes of death and 27 mental disorders in the composer.
