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Rethinking the Repertoire

Rethinking the Repertoire: Postlude

The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Rethinking the Repertoire

Rethinking the Repertoire #24: Charles Villiers Stanford’s “Songs of the Fleet”

Composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s best traits were formidable indeed.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Charles Villiers Stanford, Rethinking the Repertoire, Songs of the Fleet

Rethinking the Repertoire #12 – Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Violin Concerto

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has an uncanny understanding of what instruments can do and how to showcase them best.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Rethinking the Repertoire, Violin Concerto

Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”

Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rethinking the Repertoire, Songs without Words

Rethinking the Repertoire #5: Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”

Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Leonard Bernstein, Rethinking the Repertoire, Songfest

Rethinking the Repertoire #3: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Symphony no. 6

The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: German composer, German symphonist, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Rethinking the Repertoire

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