Peter Adamik, Staatskapelle Berlin
My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young classical musicians face which are unknown to their city-based counterparts.
Composer John Williams conducts at the Walt Disney Concert Hall opening gala, Oct. 25, 2003, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images for LAPA
Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
Jason McDonald/Netflix/ Focus Features/Wikimedia
The two symphonies show different sides to Mahler’s musical sensibilities as he shifted from from the late-Romantic to early Modernist,
The London Symphony Orchestra has performed music from video games like ‘Starfield’ and ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.’
Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
The genre has long been viewed as too exclusive, too expensive and too stuffy. Thanks to video games, that’s starting to change.
Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár in the Oscar-nominated film ‘Tár,’ that explores power, gender and sexuality.
(Focus Features)
‘Tár’ shines a spotlight on the challenges of working in the ultraconservative world of classical music, including complex social issues such as misogyny, racism and homophobia.
Focus Features
Tár muddles fact in with its fiction, creating a skewed impression of a conductor’s power.