He studied music with Aaron Copland, and in New York wrote music for theatrical productions, as well as other compositions. He achieved critical and popular success with his first novel The Sheltering Sky (1949), set in what was known as French North Africa, which he had visited in 1931. ...
Doctor Who at the Proms: Directed by Rhodri Huw, Rhian Williams, Euros Lyn. With Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke. Highlights from the first ever Doctor Who Prom, hosted by Freema Agyeman, which featured music from the series -
Written by Aaron Copland in 1942, the orchestral work frames written texts from Abraham Lincoln. Over the decades, various notable personages have narrated the texts, including actors from Charlton Heston to Katharine Hepburn. A 1993 recording featured Jones reading Lincoln. That was the occasion th...
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Who is Rossini? The most popular opera composer of his time, Gioachino Antonio Rossini is now much less well known, except by opera buffs. Some people may only know him on account of the repurposing of some of his music from his operaWilliam Tellas the theme of the television seriesThe ...
he wrote songs. It was during this period that he first set a poem by Goethe to music: "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (“Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”). And it is in this period that his work is credited as forming the foundation of the musical genre known as the German lied, or art ...
Over a lifetime of nurturing young musical talent, Nadia Boulanger’s students became some of the 20th century’s most famous composers and conductors, from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Quincy Jones andDaniel Barenboim. So although Lili Boulanger’s young death may have robbed us from ...