Max Steiner, the pioneering film composer who wrote the music for “King Kong” and “Gone With the Wind,” was once complimented as the man who invented modern movie music. “Nonsense,” he replied. “The ...

“This is a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians,” Alex Ross says. That’s good, because I am a non-musician. Ross is the premier music critic in the United States, and Wagnerism often ...

There have been documentaries and celebrations for 100 years since the premiere of The Rite of Spring, but this year also would be the 200th birthday of the opera composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard ...

Productions of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg divide audiences. Should emphasis be placed on the opera's comical elements, or is it to be seen as more of a serious play about German ...

WATCH: The Israel Chamber Orchestra played a work by Richard Wagner during the annual Wagner opera festival in Bayreuth,Germany. (video: Reuters) Members of the Israel Chamber Orchestra challenged a ...

Should the music of the notoriously antisemitic German composer Richard Wagner be played in Israel? In 1938, a Jewish member of the board of what was then called the Palestine Symphony asked the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German ...

A transcendent theme on high strings in the finale of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (“Twilight of the Gods”) promises new beginnings after the apocalypse. Yesterday, just a week after the ...