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 ...

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

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 ...

The Brighton. Philharmonic Orchestra gave the last concerts of its 7-month September-to- April season, also celebrating ...

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

The 2025 Organ Series will also include recitals by Tom Bell with The World of Messiaen on Saturday, June 14, Francesca Massey performing Twentieth-century Organ Works on Saturday, September 13, and ...

Clarinetist Louis Arques, violinist Alexander Goldberg, cellist Allen Liang, and pianist Joseph Vaz of the DMA Program perform Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (1941) in Elebash Recital ...

One of those new combos resulted in the line of Dmitri Voronkov, Cole Sillinger and Mathieu Olivier. On the surface, seeing this trio together made perfect sense. They all bring a level of ...

Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright’s Sussex Downs house has gone up for sale for £2 million, with the family keen for a theatre lover to take over the storied home ...

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 ...