Lukas Foss

Music review: San Francisco Symphony's John Cage 'Song Books'

2012-03-15 16:32:51

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Music review: John Adams' 'Absolute Jest' in San Francisco

2012-03-16 16:34:00

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'Music Makes a City': A film about a little orchestra that could

2010-09-21 16:33:11

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The formative tunes of Bramwell Tovey

2010-08-07 16:32:55

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Lukas Foss, versatile and prolific American composer, dies at 86

2009-02-03 00:00:00

Lukas Foss, the polyglot American composer, conductor and pianist who directed half a dozen Ojai Music Festivals, led marathon concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as head of composition at UCLA, has died. He was 86. Foss died...

All he asks is: 'Try to like it'

2008-04-13 00:00:00

HELMUT Lachenmann's work is very strange, even by contemporary standards. This preeminent German composer shapes what are essentially noises -- taps, scrapes and rustlings, though made largely by conventional instruments -- into beautiful, even spiritual,...

The accordion holds a lofty place

2008-04-20 00:00:00

MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer gardens, Argentine nightclubs. Nick Ariondo, perhaps the...

The saxophone, on a more serious note

2005-03-13 00:00:00

Many of today's symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone, by contrast, wasn't invented until the mid-19th...

Classical Music Event Listing

2002-06-05 00:00:00

ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL July 6 - Works of Mozart and Haydn. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Peter Sykes, keyboard. July 13 - Works of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Sharon Baker, soprano, and Stephen Hammer, soloist, joined by instrumental ensemble led by violinist...

New York Philharmonic

2003-01-29 18:51:13

� February 14: Dutoit Conducts Berlioz, 8:00 p.m. Charles Dutoit, conductor; Paul Groves (debut), tenor; Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. Work by Berlioz. February 19: Riccardo Muti Conducts Tchaikovsky, 7:30 p.m. Riccardo Muti,...

Theater review, the Chicago Sinfonietta with Paul Freeman conducting at Symphony Center

2000-11-22 00:00:00

At first glance, Monday night's program for the Chicago Sinfonietta concert at Symphony Center looked as if conductor Paul Freeman's "something-for-everyone" policy had gone amok. How else to explain the inclusion of Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony...

Classical composer Lukas Foss , who was known for his use of varied styles and his prolific portfolio, died Sunday. He was 86.

2009-02-02 12:31:37

Concertgoers relax amid the trees as Lukas Foss conducts a concert in 1979.

2006-06-02 17:38:54