Originally published February 20, 2013. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. I’m ashamed to admit it, but Benjamin Britten is a composer I managed to live most of my life without knowing really anything about. Chalk it up first to the anti-British bias there is in classical music overall.…
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Meet Michael Nyman
Originally published September 15, 2012. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. Today’s treasure is one that I found over twenty years ago: the modern British composer Michael Nyman. I first discovered Michael Nyman when I went to see the film “Prospero’s Books”. I admit, I didn’t know who Greenaway…
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Ute Lemper Online
Originally published April 27, 2009. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. Update: It's a whole different world now compared to when I published this. The YouTube channel is still there. The Twitter handle is still there on "X", but that's a different beast now. And the Facebook page is…