Composer
This Exciting Exhibition Will Have You Hearing Sculptures
Hauser and Wirth’s exhibition “Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 – 1962,” on the interplay between experimental music and art, inspires synesthesia
Jewish Conductor Seeks to Mark Richard Wagner's 200th Anniversary Without Hate
Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian Jewish conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his “Wagner Days” festival in June.
Richard Wagner 'Vile' Anti-Semitism May Emerge in Letters From Grandson
A descendant of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, promised to hand over the correspondence of her late father to the Bavarian State Archives.
Richard Wagner's Bicentennial Sparks Effort to Split Music and Anti-Semitism
Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite and Adolf Hitler’s favorite music composer. As his 200th birthday nears, the problem has been separating these facts.
The Sacred and the Profane
Though a good deal of his writings are dated, Lazare Saminsky’s thought-provoking discussions of Jewish music deserve a second hearing.
Composer Who Rocked the 'Cradle'
A new biography of the composer Marc Blitzstein traces how his left-wing leanings found their way into his music and his long friendship with Leonard Bernstein.