FW Exclusive: Composer Lukas Ligeti Talks About Breaking Down Walls in...
Meet LUKAS LIGETI. He’s a New York-based composer and percussionist who the WALL STREET JOURNAL recently profiled for a piece on the sons of famous classical composers. Their thesis: this next...
View ArticleFW Exclusive: Hot Young Conductor Eye Candy Can Save Classical Music
That classical music’s audience is old is a given, but industry insiders call insinuations that the genre is dying off alarmist. Ok. But you have to admit, they’re certainly not getting any younger....
View ArticleExclusive: Sara Houghteling Schools Us on Art History
About a month back, we posted the first page of Pictures at an Exhibition, by Sara Houghteling, a history lesson in the form of a novel. Houghteling drew inspiration from the autobiography of Rose...
View ArticleClassical Music’s New Function: Highly Effective Teenager Repellent
Since Culture Monster already made the Clockwork Orange connection that occurred to us the moment we saw the headline “Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens,” we’ll give you the...
View Article10 Young Female Composers You Should Know
For those of us who have been lazily, unsuccessfully looking for a way into contemporary classical music, NPR offers a rare enticement: They polled their listeners about their favorite composers under...
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The Cultural Omnivore’s Introduction to Classical Music
Gone are the days when a taste for classical music had to be backed by a six-figure salary, an old-money social circle, and season tickets to the Metropolitan Opera House. Today’s culture vultures...
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Wildly Animated Portraits of Classical Musicians
We’re not sure where the ridiculous stereotype that classical musicians are uptight came from, but thankfully folks like Denmark-based cellist and photographer Nikolaj Lund — who we spotted on Colossal...
View Article10 Pieces of Classical Music You Know Thanks to the Movies
Think back to the first time you heard the overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Were you just a kid watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in a dark cinema? Similarly, thanks to V for...
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10 Great Movies Inspired by Operas
There’s plenty of drama to spare when it comes to the world of opera. Occasionally, filmmakers have been directly inspired by the songbooks of classical composers, while others have looked to the...
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Flavorwire Premiere: Cellist Maya Beiser Transforms Nirvana’s “Lithium” Into...
From Owen Pallett to Andrew Bird to Kishi Bashi, there’s no shortage of musicians incorporating classical string sections into rock and pop. Far fewer do it the other way around, or at least on a level...
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Gael García Bernal Plays a Sexy Orchestra Conductor in ‘Mozart in the Jungle’...
Amazon has a compelling selection of television shows and movies to watch on Prime, but in terms of original content, only Transparent has managed to compete with any of Netflix’s original...
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Flavorwire Premiere: yMusic’s “Music in Circles” Video Mixes Glitch-Art with...
For the uninitiated, New York’s yMusic is the go-to group for “orchestral flourish” on indie rock records. Its six instrumentalists have worked with everyone from Beck to Bjork, St. Vincent to Sufjan...
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FW Exclusive: Hot Young Conductor Eye Candy Can Save Classical Music
That classical music’s audience is old is a given, but industry insiders call insinuations that the genre is dying off alarmist. Ok. But you have to admit, they’re certainly not getting any younger....
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