First, here’s the list:

http://www.dpr.org/2008_Top_100.htm

Surprises?  Glaring omissions?  Certainly there were a few, but perhaps the biggest surprise was the ever-predictable Beethoven 9th Symphony falling out of the #1 spot (but all the way down to #9?)  Ultimately, though, we have to remember that this was[more...]

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Today is the 100th birthday of a great American master of serious music.

Elliott Carter was born on December 11th, 1908, and for the past 20 years, since Carter was just a young man of 80, there are only two pieces[more...]

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As my husband and I travel in our motor home during summers and winters, we’re always on the lookout for radio stations, both public and commercial, that offer good (read that, classical) music.  In fact, we own two guides to[more...]

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A manuscript for a previously unknown composition by Mozart was discovered in a French library.
The tune is intact, but the instrumentation and harmonies are incomplete. This may have been a simple little diddy that he tossed off one night and[more...]

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I just read this review of a new opera by film composer Howard Shore, the man who created the magnificent score to the Lord of the Rings trilogy:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/09/opera.fly.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch

That’s right, the 1950’s and 1980’s sci-fi horror films The Fly has been turned into[more...]

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