Jakubiak Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Gardner - Erwartung / Pelleas & MelisandeWritten only six years apart, these two works share a common narrative of frustrated love, and the concept of the forest as a metaphor for the subconscious mind. Musically they are wildly different, however; Pelleas, which Schoenberg wrote in his late twenties, is the epitome of his late romantic style, indebted to Richard Strauss. Erwartung (his first work for the stage) was written after his conversion to atonality. Maurice Maeterlinck's play

Convergence is a group made up of the "best of the best" musicians based in Colorado

The Italian composers of the seventeenth century

carefully looping beats

Trained by world-renowned artists

She's played a part in popular music since the late '70s

the profound emotion of Lev Kogan's Kaddish prayer

"as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation" (Chicago Tribune)

I Love The New Sky

in the spring of 2010

From the Eastern European cimbalom to the Chinese yangqin to the Indian santur

The list of those who borrowed verses from Dumas's pen is a mixture of obscure and illustrious names': Hector Berlioz

Luc Beauséjour leads a very active concertizing career