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Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”

David Boos April 17, 2022

More than 500 years ago Antoine Brumel wrote a 12-part Mass that allows us to experience the uninhibited spirituality of the pre-Reformation world of the early 16th century. Its construction from a tiny motif of Gregorian chant from the Easter Lauds is nothing less than awe-inspiring.

Rediscovering Awe: A Musician’s Reflections on Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

David Boos April 15, 2022

The attendance of a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion during Holy Week has long been a staple of the educated bourgeoisie. But what once used to be a reverent experience, is in danger of becoming increasingly demystified. A plea for awe.

Reclaiming a Classic: Beethoven, the Conservative

David Boos April 1, 2022

Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world. Aesthetic changes in the 19th century have created an image of a proto-romantic work, while in fact it may be an homage to a bygone tradition of the 18th century.

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

David Boos March 7, 2022

To fully appreciate Perosi, we must try to look at the hope he sparked in people during his golden age.

Kremlin Politics Reaches the Arts Sector: Valery Gergiev Fired from Munich Philharmonic

David Boos March 4, 2022

The European wave of sanctions has reached the arts sector. Prominent Russian artists, such as Valery Gergiev and Anna Netrebko, are having their contracts terminated for “insufficient distancing” from Kremlin politics.

A New Year for Russian Modernism

Paul du Quenoy February 22, 2022

Interested readers should know that, in what is billed as “the return of one of the greatest pianists of our time” spanning from Beethoven’s “Appassionata” and Chopin’s “Third Sonata,” Yefim Bronfman will perform a piano recital at the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna on February 28, 2022.

Memorializing Mozart: “Mozart’s Final Year” at the Palm Beach Symphony

Paul du Quenoy January 15, 2022

As one of the first arts companies to return to live performance as the pandemic subsided, the Palm Beach Symphony has rocketed to national importance and richly deserves international notice.

Tag: classical music

Rediscovering Awe: Antoine Brumel’s “Earthquake Mass”

Rediscovering Awe: A Musician’s Reflections on Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Reclaiming a Classic: Beethoven, the Conservative

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

Kremlin Politics Reaches the Arts Sector: Valery Gergiev Fired from Munich Philharmonic

A New Year for Russian Modernism

Memorializing Mozart: “Mozart’s Final Year” at the Palm Beach Symphony

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