Daily News Roundup: 4 July 2016
+ Read Wah Keung Chan’s review of Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna at the Montreal international Jazz Festival this past weekend. “While there is much to…
Kiersten van Vliet
Kiersten van Vliet
Kiersten van Vliet was the Web Editor and an Editorial Assistant for La Scena Musicale from 2015–17.
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CD Review – Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 1–4 (White)
Interest in American modernist Charles Ives, as these things often happen, spiked after his death. Even as the post factum father of American modernism for…
Daily News Roundup: 1 July 2016
+ The marriage between text and music in contemporary opera is more important than ever, says William Littler, citing Fellow Travelers (Cincinnati Opera) and Les…
Daily News Roundup: 30 June 2016
+ Andris Nelsons has pulled out of a production of Parsifal that opens the Bayreuth Festival. “Owing to a differing approach in various matters, the…
Daily News Roundup: 29 June 2016
+ A CD review of English composer Granville Bantock’s epic late-Romantic oratorio Omar Khayyam, re-released from the 1979 Lyrita version with the BBC orchestra and…
Daily News Roundup: 28 June 2016
+ Alan Fletcher, the CEO of the Aspen music festival in Colorado, asks why great American symphonists are neglected by American orchestras. + From the…
Daily News Roundup: 21 June 2016
+ R.E.M’s Mike Mills Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra with the TSO was quite the hit with younger audiences. + A miniseries…
Video of the Day – Ludovico Einaudi
In perhaps the coldest concert ever recorded, Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi plays an ode to the Arctic while floating on a platform in the middle…
Daily News Roundup: 18–20 June 2016
Welcome to today’s Daily News Roundup, where we celebrate great musicians from home and abroad. Plus, check out a rather large portrait of Beethoven. + Joshua Errett…
Known Issues with mySCENA beta
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new web platform mySCENA.org beta. There are a number of issues and bugs with the platform…
