The intricately crafted artistic visions of four Northwestern music composition undergraduate students filled the Regenstein Master Class Room on Thursday night. Bienen’s music composition department ...

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

The PostClassical Ensemble is making you an offer you can’t refuse. Next week, the group will perform a pair of concerts in Washington, D.C, and Baltimore featuring the orchestral works of the most ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness ...

“Niche Bach, sondern Meer!” (Not a brook, but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven On March 31, 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Holy Roman ...

Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...

Some Northwestern students aren’t just writing essays or lab reports for class — instead, they’re creating original musical scores. Four such students showcased their original work at Bienen School of ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

Throughout history, certain individuals have possessed gifts so extraordinary that they reshaped entire musical landscapes ...

Pacey Kane never expected to end his 8th grade year at North Scott on such a high note. He recently won the 2023 Iowa Composers Forum Student Composition Contest in the middle school division for his ...

Born in 1923, Gyorgy Ligeti was known to be one of the most influential, innovative, and progressive composers of the latter half of the 20th century. Ligeti was especially passionate about ...