British-based composer Naresh Sohal was born on 18 September 1939 in Punjab in pre-Partition India and was the first person of Indian origin to make his mark as a composer of western classical music. His family had no musical pedigree,

Launcelot A. Cranmer-Byng (1872-1945) was a prolific author, translator and editor who published hundreds of articles and compiled numerous books in a variety of languages. His possibly most famous collection is titled “A Lute of Jade.” It was first issued

Austrian composer Johanna Doderer (b. 1969) looked at the Slovenian Lake Bohinj for her second symphony, Bohinj (2015). Lake Bohinj in Slovenia is a remote lake on the edge of Triglav National Park. Ms. Doderer first focused on the magnificent

We spoke the other day with English conductor Thomas Kemp, Artistic Director and Founder of Music@Malling. West Malling, a market town in Kent, England, with a history that extends back to the 11th century with the founding of St. Mary’s

Fire has endless contradictory connotations, from the agony of flesh burns to the heat of romantic passion to the comforting domestic warmth of hearth and home. Fire is also a universal symbol of both destruction and renewal. Maybe that’s why

American pianist, writer, and teacher Jonathan Biss experienced an extreme panic attack in the middle of playing a recital. He had wrestled with anxiety around performing music for many years, and he felt ashamed of it. As he explained in

Isang Yun’s Symphony V premiered on the composer’s 70th birthday, on 17 September 1987, with Hans Zender conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as the soloist. Using poems by Nelly Sachs, Yun makes an unambiguous statement of his intentions.

The natural trumpet, i.e., one that’s just a length of tubing, get its pitches from the overtone series. However, this is a limited range of pitches and to get ones that are in a particular key requires that the trumpet