by Nestor Castiglione | Dec 23, 2018 | Classical Music and Opera |
Classical music, some argue, is currently experiencing, if not an outright crisis, at the very least some discomfort over itself, its legacy and how that all can manage to remain relevant to a wide audience in the 21st century. Trends in the recording industry and...
by Nestor Castiglione | Dec 17, 2018 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
A chill breeze set in late Sunday afternoon in Downtown Los Angeles, wafting through the skyscrapers, and setting trees swaying with a rustling that was a harbinger of the winter that will arrive in a matter of days. Its bite was already felt at the tips of one’s...
by Nestor Castiglione | Nov 12, 2018 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured |
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Jean Sibelius was the most popular composer then living in the Anglosphere, not to mention in his native Scandinavia. Fame was a double-edged sword for the notoriously self-critical composer. Doubt, its flames stoked by alcoholism,...
