However, an editorial in Britain's Times newspaper doubted the composer's chant would catch on.
Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel: On this seemingly-improvised score, it's hard to tell where the director's soundtrack ends and the composer's contribution begins.
Mr. Ives saw Mr. Glass's abstract opera "Einstein on the Beach" when it first came to the Metropolitan Opera House, and he's a long time fan of the composer's music.
She said such an approach is rare because most concert programmes are put together around one composer's work, or their relevance to another composer.
For the pianist using today's grand piano, as opposed to the composer's more delicate instrument, there are challenges in rendering this music as Beethoven might have wanted.
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The school held a performance of Britten's famous War Requiem in March as part of the composer's centenary birthday celebrations.
Haydn's princely employer died in 1790, and his successor had no interest in a composer's services.
He hypothesizes that the slip-up in "Mother Goose, " which is actually one of Ravel's simpler scores in terms of harmony and orchestration, was a proofreading lapse on the composer's part.
WSJ: Ravel| Mother Goose| New York Philharmonic| Arbie Orenstein
This time, its sinewy melody, reminiscent of Kurt Weill, was accompanied by the composer's chanted lyrics.
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This honor is granted to the composer(s) of a song, celebrating his strength as a musical writer.
It takes a willingness to enter into the fray, within the composer's psyche.
The money will be spent by the Britten Pears Foundation (BPF), which is based at the composer's house in Aldeburgh.
To hear and see them perform has always felt to me like taking a private tour through a composer's mind.
Deciphering a composer's intent (or trying to) not only stimulates Mr. Pollini as a performer, but also helps shape his inner life.
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So he turned to the composer's popular piano suite Kinderszenen for inspiration.
But Galliano plays the part on the accordina, a smaller relative of the accordion, and takes the composer's high art into a cozy cafe.
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Mr Johnson said the composer's works from the period the poet attended the church were found during a search by current organist Paul Broadhurst.
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The package concludes with the composer's posthumously recorded epic, "Epitaph" (1989).
WSJ: Charles Mingus | The Bassist in a Box | By Will Friedwald
You could never know exactly what was in the composer's head.
It could stand as a motto for all the composer's recent music, every note of which is a prize won from 80 years of continuous creativity.
At age 12 he met French composer Olivier Messiaen, and later he championed the composer's music and studied with his wife, Yvonne Loriod, at the Paris Conservatoire.
The chapter on the Vienna that Brahms reached in the 1870s is a model, and the composer's hopeless love for Clara Schumann is a strong biographical thread.
The composer's political inspirations stretch back to previous works including his third symphony, 2010's "Poems and Prayers, " which set Israeli and Arab poetry and the Jewish Kaddish to music.
Supported by the composer's huge bass sound, the soloists come and go over a Latin polyrhythm, and you have no trouble believing you're in the midst of a south-of-the-border debauch.
WSJ: Charles Mingus | The Bassist in a Box | By Will Friedwald
Film crews were also at the school in 2012 recording the new movie Benjamin Britten - Peace and Conflict, detailing the Suffolk composer's time at Gresham's between 1928 and 1930.
Mr. Orenstein's "Mother Goose" edition, a so-called urtext, will contain textual notes setting out the differences between the composer's manuscript and the existing Durand score to accompany the musicologist's corrected score.
WSJ: Ravel| Mother Goose| New York Philharmonic| Arbie Orenstein
While the object of music publishing is to get as close as possible to the composer's original intent, the manuscript itself is not necessarily dispositive because it, too, may contain errors.
WSJ: Ravel| Mother Goose| New York Philharmonic| Arbie Orenstein
Yet a recent seven-disc boxed set containing nearly all of the pianist-composer's early work under his own name, "Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945, " shows that the early Hines was a very different animal.
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He owns the composer's manuscript, acquiring it in 1984 from a Dutch foundation, publishing it in facsimile and obliging Vienna's Universal Edition to print a corrected new score which is faithful to Mahler's final amendments.
Although the process of transferring a musical composition from a gleam in the composer's eye into a handwritten manuscript and, finally, a performance-ready score has come a long way from the days of copper-plate engraving, it's a process rife with the possibility of transmittal error.
WSJ: Ravel| Mother Goose| New York Philharmonic| Arbie Orenstein
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