Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, on setting Dante's Inferno on the island of her birth; Journalist Joanna Moorhead on Pope Francis' relationship with the arts; Poet and librettist ...

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer steeped in the solitude and ecstasy of Catholic mysticism: everything he wrote was ...

It was 25 years ago this July that Paul Jacobs broke into the national consciousness with an act that combined deep musical ...

Alternative rock bands in the 1990s shunned the idea of being rock stars, but many became alt-rock guitar heroes nonetheless.

Italian maestro Roberto Abbado, who has captivated Korean audiences through two previous collaborations with the Korean ...

There, his teachers included Olivier Messiaen (who, for comparison, entered the same conservatory at 11). Boulez quickly differentiated himself from Messiaen’s convention-defying but tonally ...

This isn’t extroverted music. If anything, it’s haunting. He says this final farewell is inspired by Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, an unusually scored and similarly ...