2+ hour, 24+ min ago  (156+ words) On June 22, Maison Krug Champagne invited a group of tanned and tattooed influencer types (plus a few journalists) to taste their champagnes at the Reethaus, a sleek "space for radical presence" on the bank of Berlin's river Spree. Accompanying the…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (146+ words) I first met the composer Wang Lu on a warm weekend in south Brooklyn in the spring of 2008. The International Contemporary Ensemble, where I'm a pianist and original member, was about to premiere her "Siren Song." It was by far…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (255+ words) We all have the pieces we listen to less than we sit through. Where we think, "Wake me up when it's over." Every so often, though, a performer will play those works in a way that makes us bolt upright....

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (225+ words) On Monday, Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas." It sets out his vision for how we can best harness artificial intelligence without stripping away human dignity. Warning against "the construction of yet another Tower of Babel" and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (164+ words) An AI Opera From the 70s, Revealed VAN Magazine Fifty years ago, the American composer Maryanne Amacher set about the creation of a major new work: not a symphony or a string quartet, but a TV series. Originally titled "Sound Saga,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (116+ words) Watching Bach through Only Fans VAN Magazine Bach's music has been recorded on synthesizer, launched into outer space, and inspired 300 years of Western classical music. Now, it's on Only Fans. " is a writer and translator based in Chicago. She is…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (158+ words) Like few others, the composer Carlos Simon's artistic work has been subject to the changing political winds at the Kennedy Center. He came to the institution in 2021 as part of an industry-wide reckoning with legacies of racism. He will leave…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (175+ words) This year's Venice Biennale of Art is titled "In Minor Keys," a curatorial vision proposed by the late Koyo Kouoh, who died a year before the Biennale opened last week. The theme asks us to take a deep breath, close…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (89+ words) Inside the Sound of the Swarm'VAN Magazine An independent online classical music magazine "The granular dimension of time is the secret to bug music. I don't just mean the music bugs make, but something wider and deeper, the "bug music…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (235+ words) A librettist-turned-priest, a dramatic soprano, and the creative director of Christian Dior walk into a bar called Crisco Disco. It's a late April evening in Florence, and the room smells of high-end fragrances, mildew, and poppers. A bear in a…...