When encountering a composer's work for the first time, it's a perfectly natural response to compare it to music we already know. We all do it, and this instinct to relate the new to the familiar can...
Sawyers's Fourth Symphony is scored for an orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals and strings...
Kenneth Woods writes: "Given that this programme was to be an exploration of childhood, the obvious place to start is with birth. Richard Wagner wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for...
The life and career of the African-American composer William Grant Still qualifies as the quintessential American 'uccess story.'1. I. Singing River: Moderately Slow 2. II. Autumn Night: Lightly 3...