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From Rachmaninov's first 'Piano Concerto' in October of 1900, to the Britten 'Piano Concerto' on August 18, 1938, native son James Inverne picks a more studied Classicalite's Five Best... -
READ: Aaron Dilloway's Original Liners for the Nath Family's 'SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER, VOL. TWO' (Hanson)
Recorded in March, 2005 by Aaron Dilloway in Kathmandu, Nepal... Originally released as a cassette back in 2005, this second volume of Aaron Dilloway's in-the-field recordings of the Nath snake charmers of Haryana, India was recorded in March of that year in Kathmandu. -
UPDATE: Presenting All 40 Bessie Award 2012-13 Nominees...
The office of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (that is, The Bessies Steering Committee), has announced the 40 nominees for the 2012-13 season... -
Classicalite Recording News: EMI Classical and Virgin Classics Taken Over by Warner Brothers
Well that was the worst-kept secret in the classical music world! EMI Classical and its sister label Virgin Classics are to be spun out of the recent Universal Music takeover, and will be rolled in to Warner Music. How important is this... -
The Column: A Classical Playlist for the Royal Baby…and Its Parents
Suddenly, all of my various social media bits and pieces, and a good deal of my Gmail inbox, are screaming at me that Princess Catherine (Kate, as she's known to most people who have never met her and aren't really on good enough terms... -
Off Off Broadway : Daniel Bumgardner, 'You've Got My Song: the [unauthorized] Weezer musical'
A concert narrative in dramatic form (itself after Puccini's 'Butterfly'), so far, Classicalite has published the entire first act of Daniel Bumgardner's 'You've Got My Song: The [unofficial] Weezer Musical.' And we couldn't be more proud... -
Intuitively Yours, Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Aughts were especially tough on Modernism. Starting in 2001, we lost Iannis Xenakis. In 2003, Luciano Berio passed on. Three years later, György Ligeti expired in Vienna, and two years shy of making contact, Mauricio Kagel had... -
LONGREADS: John Frusciante, Ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper Guitarist, on How His New 'Outside' EP is "Modern Classical Music"
"The EP is 20 minutes long." -- John Frusciante Record Collection is releasing ex-Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante's new solo EP, Outside, on August 27. -
BREAKING: Bessie Awards for Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze, 40 Other Nominations Announced
On a muggy Wednesday afternoon at the Gina Gibney Dance Center's Studio 5-2, two special Bessie Awards were presented to choreographers Darrell Jones and Joanna Kotze. 40 nominations for the upcoming Bessies Awards ceremony... -
The Column: Great Scores by Classical Film Composers
James Inverne on when film music turns classical, and classical music turns towards film. Someone once asked me at a classical music awards ceremony--one which specialized in “crossover," that strange category that was, I believe, invented just to give record shops somewhere to put all of those albums that once would have come under the then-defunct heading of “easy listening” (and what the heck does that mean?)--a really difficult question. -
Sporting Music for Wimbledon Champions, with the Possible Exception of Andy Murray
James Inverne celebrates a fellow Brit’s big win with some locker room listening ideas... According to NEW WIMBLEDON CHAMPION Andy Murray--he's the NEW WIMBLEDON CHAMPION, by the way--90 per cent of players listen to music in the locker room. -
Boredoms' 77 BoaDrum: Six Years, and a Day, Later
With 74 vacant thrones to fill, not including the "0" spot (once a band of nihilists, always a nihilist band), Japanese noise-tet Boredoms and a smattering of their closest friends descended upon Brooklyn's Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park...
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