The final Honorable Mention goes to Julia Wolfe for her recent composition, Fire in My Mouth, premiered at the New York Philharmonic in January 2019. Julia Wolfe is a composer
The final Honorable Mention goes to Julia Wolfe for her recent composition, Fire in My Mouth, premiered at the New York Philharmonic in January 2019. Julia Wolfe is a composer
Mussorgsky appears one last time on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with an honorable mention for his Pictures at an Exhibition suite for piano. Most people know this suite from
I’m giving an honorable mention to Philip Glass for Anthem Part 2, from his film score Powaqqatsi, which was released back in 1988. But that is not where I know
I’m giving an honorable mention to Carl Maria von Weber for his great opera, Der Freischütz, premiered in 1821. Weber’s operas opened the path for Germanic Romantic opera. I hadn’t
1959 was a magnificent year for music, particularly jazz. I’ve noted a few of these compositions here to this point. Miles Davis with his album Kind of Blue and his
Coming in at #11 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical is Antonin Dvorak with his lovely, delightful Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22, which he composed in 1875
I am giving an honorable mention to Beethoven for his final symphony, the 9th in D minor. It used to be at the top of my list when I was
I first heard Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on February 3, 1994 as part of the music theory classes I took at Foothill College. I went to the store and bought
I’m adding Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker to the honorable mentions list. After Swan Lake, in 1876, Tchaikovsky composed The Sleeping Beauty in 1889, and with its success, he ventured for one
George Gershwin comes in at #13 on my Top 50 Favorite/Best Classical with his classical/jazz hybrid, Rhapsody in Blue. I know this piece has been overplayed, some say overhyped, known