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'Composer Roberto Sierra Premieres New Version of 'Missa Latina' This Weekend

Composer Roberto Sierra will debut a new version of his acclaimed choral symphony, “Missa Latina,” this Sunday at New York’s Hunter College. The work originally premiered in 2006 at the Kennedy Center as commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra.
  • 'The ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Soundtrack, a Monolith Remembered

    In 1968, director Stanley Kubrick amazed moviegoers with his epic sci-fi masterpiece, '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The accompanying soundtrack was an equivalent enchantment, featuring classic compositions from Richard Strauss, György Ligeti and Johann Strauss II.
  • 'EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Gottschalk's Chamber Dispatches from Ostrava Days 2015

    Ostrava, a smallish Czech city of some 300,000 people about 10 kilometers from the Polish border, hosts the biennial Ostrava Days, a small festival, itself, but with audiences usually numbering a couple hundred. Both city and fest think big. In recent years, Ostrava has seen a remarkable amount of development via commerce and construction, as well as a laudable push to renovate the industrial facilities if its mining past into theaters, galleries and other art spaces. For its part, Ostrava Days is oriented toward big music--the 2015 edition even featuring a night of works for three orchestras--all the while making room for smaller-scale compositions.
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