While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work ...
Completed in 1896, the sprawling, six-movement score is the composer’s longest and perhaps most audacious musical undertaking, with a Dante-esque program that traces a course from the depths of the ...
Artistic inspiration can come from the most unexpected places.
“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...