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Charles Dutoit is one of the world’s greatest conductors - and most feared.

Both Wittgenstein and Heidegger found themselves, at pivotal moments in their careers, turning to the arresting work of the early twentieth-century Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887–1914). Not surprisingly, Wittgenstein and Heidegger responded to Trakl’s striking and still mysterious poems in sharply divergent—one might almost say opposite—ways.

Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a cond...

Arnold Schoenberg - Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47 (1949) Rudolf Kolisch, Violin Eduard Steuermann, Piano

A new album is one of the signs of renewed interest in the once-popular works of this 19th-century opera composer.

Unless you’re a truck driver or surgeon, it will hurt your performance.

From trumpets at the walls of Jericho to pop songs as torture in the Iraq War, sound can make a powerful weapon.

One championed early music, and the other was a modernist, yet more parallels can be drawn between the two than either might have preferred.