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A setting by Kaija Saariaho of texts by Amin Maalouf for solo Soprano with Piano. A joint commission between the Théatre De Chatelet Paris and the Barbican Centre London, the piece was first performed in Paris, April 2003. The text features four sh

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MuseNews, the arts newswire, interviewed fourteen of today’s leading conductors and composers, who describe their feelings about the current state of the music world, about their own careers, and about the future of serious music. The interviews are lively and interesting and put major developments in today’s music scene into intelligent perspective. Everyone with an interest in the performing arts will enjoy MusNews's conversations with these extremely articulate conductors and composers.

The people interviewed include conductor Daniel Barenboim (Staatsoper, Berlin), composer Luciano Berio, composer John Corigliano, composer Peter Eotvos, conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti (Rome Opera), prodigy conductor Daniel Harding, Christopher Hogwood (founder of the Academy of Ancient Music), conductor Gustav Kuhn (founder of the Festival Erl), composer Magnus Lindberg, conductor Sir Simon Rattle (Berlin Philharmonic), composer Kaija Saariaho, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Joseph Swensen (Scottish National Orchestra), and conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi (Cleveland Orchestra). ... Read more