Composer, and opera, are a mixed bag

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/arts/ny-secfirst4599267jan25,0,1530554.story?coll=ny-arts-headlines

A Master With a Mission, Despite Her Personal Trials

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/arts/music/27horn.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

K¡LM¡N: Lieder

I wonder if a record company, any record company, would have taken the trouble of recording these songs if the composer had been Zoltan Kocsis or Deszˆ Ranki instead of Imre (his real first name) K·lm·n?

PADEREWSKI: Manru

Known for his virtuosity as a pianist, Ignacy Paderewski (1860-1941) is also known as a composer. While most of his works involve piano, he left a single opera, Manru, a three-act work that he composed between 1892 and 1901.

La Monnaie’s Foccroulle Updates Image, Dreams of Almodovar

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a8NP0HLAjMvI&refer=culture#

SALLINEN: Barabbas Dialogues

Two of Finlandís greatest artistic luminariesócomposer Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) and poet Lassi Nummi (b. 1928)ócame together to produce a fine new work, The Barabbas Dialogues (2004), which has been recently recorded and released on CD on the CPO label.

Music for the End of Time

http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20060213&s=schiff

Mozart Rules From Salzburg to Santiago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012601302.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/entertainmentnews

Watching the Master Emerge, Circa 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/salzburg-journal.html?8dpc

Fleming’s Sudden Departure Raises Questions

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/salzburg-journal.html?8dpc