The 63rd annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday January 31, 2021, in Los Angeles, CA. Along with the recording artists, several composers and works published or represented by Wise Music Group are on...
In works by Rolf Wallin and Kaija Saariaho, the clarinet floats atop massive, shifting musical atmospheres, occasionally punctuated by bursts of percussion. Watershed concertos by John Corigliano, Thea Musgrave, and...
[The viola] had a commanding awkward size, a somewhat veiled, slightly melancholic tone quality, and it seemed always in the middle of things, a good vantage point for a composer.— John...
Philip Glass' Glass Pieces ('Rubric' and 'Façades' from Glassworks, excerpts from the opera Akhnaten) premiered 12 May 1983 at the New York State Theatre. The work captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan...
Give me something to dance about and I’ll dance it.Jerome Robbins, to Irving Berlin 2018 is the year the dance world comes together to celebrate the centennial of Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), a global celebration...
The concerto grosso proved to be a fruitful genre for J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and their Baroque peers, and modern music has picked up where the 18th-century masters left off. Below are selections from...
Following last month's snapshot of family-friendly pieces inspired by dance, here are selected narrated works from the Music Sales catalog. An ideal way to involve local orators — anchors, professors, actors...
