Two Steps From Hell
If you're a fan of 21st-century movie music, you're probably well acquainted with Two Steps From Hell, the brainchild of composers Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix, who got together in 2006 to write...
View Article15-03-2013: An Easter Special! All-New Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus...
(Source: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Paul Tam, Director of Marketing Tel: (852) 2721 9035 Cell: (852) 9650 6818 Email:paul.tam@hkphil.org Alice Luk Assistant...
View ArticleChoral Arts Society’s skilled homage to 20th-century classics
The Choral Arts Society of Washington paid homage on Sunday to 20th-century musical works that have become classics of the 21st-century repertoire. The event included performances of Igor Stravinsky’s...
View ArticleNorth Park University to Host Bach Week Festival Concert May 5 (North Park...
(Source: North Park University) University students to perform in first-ever festival concert in Chicago CHICAGO (April 16, 2013) - North Park University will host a Bach Week Festival performance at...
View ArticleTulsa Oratorio Chorus to perform Bach's Mass in B Minor to end its season
No one decides to take up mountain climbing one day and heads off to Nepal to scale Mount Everest the next. The same principle is true when it comes to performing what is one of the most monumental...
View Article07-03-2013: Sit Back and Relax. Enjoy Wonderful Music at HK Phil’s Brand New...
(Source: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra) Download [7 March 2013 - Hong Kong] Sit back, relax, and get into the weekend mood with the Hong Kong Philharmonic's innovative concert series - Swire Denim...
View ArticleColorado choirs ring in holidays with Hot and old Handel
Jamie Van Eyck sings during practice with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra before the start of a "Messiah" performance last year. A plethora of choral performaces are scheduled this month. George...
View ArticleIDINA MENZEL - TONY AWARD-WINNING BROADWAY STAR OF WICKED, RENTAND GLEE -...
(Source: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association) IDINA MENZEL - TONY AWARD-WINNING BROADWAY STAR OF WICKED, RENTAND GLEE - RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR WITH TWO PERFORMANCES AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL...
View ArticleThe Cello, Big and Bowed, as the Star
It wasn’t on the scale of the dozens-strong Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, held in Los Angeles last year. In numbers, it even fell a bit short of the straightforwardly named 12 Cellists of...
View ArticleLos Angeles Philharmonic review: A fierce 'Gospel'
Los Angeles -- A dozen years ago, composer John Adams and librettist Peter Sellars reinvented the Nativity oratorio with "El Niño," a brilliantly innovative work that fused biblical and contemporary...
View ArticleEdward Polochick Leads BSO and Concert Artists of Baltimore Chorale in 30th...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), Concert Artists of Baltimore and conductor Edward Polochick continue their tradition of ushering in the Christmas season with an all-star performance of...
View ArticleHandel's Messiah
Desperation is the source of inspiration, they say, and nowhere is this better illustrated than in the case of Handel's Messiah. In 1741, the 56-year-old composer was debt-ridden and in the throes of...
View ArticleBravo for May Festival's 'German Requiem'
Unlike the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead, a prayer for departed souls, Brahms choral masterpiece A German Requiem is a work of peace and reflection for those left behind. On Friday night,...
View ArticleLEILA JOSEFOWICZ PERFORMS STRAVINSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO WITH THE LOS ANGELES...
(Source: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association) LEILA JOSEFOWICZ PERFORMS STRAVINSKY'S VIOLIN CONCERTO WITH THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC LED BY SUSANNA MÄLKKI FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 12 AND 13,...
View ArticleTaipei Philharmonic Chorus sings classics to mark 40th anniversary 追憶大師回顧經典...
The Taipei Philharmonic Chorus is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Revisiting some of the chorus’ most significant milestones over the past four decades, the chorus, led by conductor Chiu...
View Article‘TIS THE SEASON AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL – 2012 DECK THE HALL HOLIDAY...
'TIS THE SEASON AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL - 2012 DECK THE HALL HOLIDAY CONCERTS The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association celebrates the holidays with the annual Deck the Hall holiday series - nine...
View Article$1 million gift from Kiki and David Gindler for the Los Angeles Master Chorale
Advertisement Regularly performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by Music Director Grant Gershon, has been acclaimed by the The New York Times...
View ArticleTwo Steps From Hell Creates Music That’s In Tune With Trailers
There’s almost a Catch-22 to creating trailer music: Make something that’s interesting enough to resonate with audiences but...
View ArticleClassical music offerings for holidays include 'Messiah,' candlelight concert
The holidays are here, and that means a heavenly host of holiday concerts. They range from pops programs at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to a carefully constructed choral concert by the St. Louis...
View ArticleClassical music offerings include 'Messiah,' candlelight concert
The holidays are here, and that means a heavenly host of holiday concerts. They range from pops programs at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to a carefully constructed choral concert by the St. Louis...
View ArticleClassical hall of fame inducts 6
The Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Corigliano, the distinguished conductor Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are among the six honorees being inducted into the American...
View ArticleDudamel keeps things light in Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn
It hasn't always been so, but symphony orchestras these days fear Bach. Many modern philharmonics, intimidated by period-practice specialists, consign the composer often cited as the greatest ever to...
View ArticleRAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS LEADS THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AT WALT DISNEY...
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS LEADS THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL FOR TWO FULL WEEKENDS OF CONCERTS The First Week's Program Features Falla's La vida breve; the Second Presents...
View ArticleContemporary Choral Music at Rollins' Knowles Chapel
Related topics Bach Festival Society of Winter ParkJohn SinclairEric Whitacre Rating for Modern Masterworks_Contemporary Choral Music at Rollins' Knowles Chapel 3 Advertisement The Bach Festival...
View ArticleRAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS CONDUCTS TWO PERFORMANCES OF CARMINA BURANA WITH...
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS CONDUCTS TWO PERFORMANCES OF CARMINA BURANA WITH THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012, AT 8 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012, AT 8 PM...
View ArticleClassical Beat | Bruffy warms to new hall
The Kansas City Chorale can make music as soft and delicate as an angel's whisper or as lush and full as an ocean's roar. In other words, the acoustics of Helzberg Hall were created for a group like...
View ArticleThe L.A. Philharmonic
When it comes to violin concerti, there's none greater than the Brahms. "The" because it's the only violin concerto Brahms ever wrote—and we're lucky that it survived, as the composer was notorious...
View ArticleTHE HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2013 CLASSICAL SEASON KICKS OFF WITH TWO CONCERTS LED BY...
(Source: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association) THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2013 CLASSICAL SEASON KICKS OFF WITH TWO CONCERTS LED BY MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Tuesday's Concert Presents Mahler's Second Symphony...
View ArticleFrom music for advertising to the concert hall: Two Steps From Hell performs...
Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen of Two Steps From Hell, a duo of composers who write music especially for movie trailers, had no idea when they formed in 2006 that their music would someday gain a...
View ArticleTrailer score heroes: Two Steps from Hell brings its epic orchestra scores...
By Sandra Barrera, Staff Writer Posted: 06/07/2013 02:53:07 PM PDT Updated: 06/11/2013 12:12:56 PM PDT IF YOU GO When: 8 p.m. Friday Where: Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles...
View ArticlePassage of oratorio a little bumpy
It was a brave venture by Bach Musica to move from the suburbs to a sparsely populated town hall for its performance of Mendelssohn's St Paul. This work has always languished in the shadow of the...
View ArticleReview: Los Angeles Master Chorale shows its range as it nears 50
The Los Angeles Master Chorale did what organizations are expected to do when they are about to turn 50. It looked back and patted itself on the back. In a marathon gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall on...
View ArticleLA Master Chorale performs "Carmina Burana" in 2 concerts next week
Next week, the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) conducted by Music Director, Grant Gershon will perform one of the most popular and exciting choral works of the 20th century, Carmina Burana, by Carl...
View ArticleCHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS LEADS THE LA PHIL AND PRINCIPAL CONCERTMASTER MARTIN...
(Source: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association) WHAT: Christian Zacharias, whose relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a both a conductor and soloist dates back to 1993, returns to...
View ArticleMusic makes the holiday season a rich one
Few things better symbolize the Christmas season than music and this year brings an unusually rich assortment of concerts and recitals, beginning with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus’s midwinter...
View ArticleTheir movie trailer music is proudly commercial
LOS ANGELES - In a recording studio on Sunset Boulevard, Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix are banging on two giant taiko drums built for their company, Two Steps From Hell. The brawny musicians exude...
View ArticleExtreme Music Proudly Presents First Ever Two Steps From Hell Live Show
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL PERFORMANCE TO FEATURE ORIGINAL "EPIC ORCHESTRA" SCORES CREATED BY TRAILER MUSIC INDUSTRY TRAIL BLAZERS TWO STEPS FROM HELL LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme...
View ArticleBach Festival Society: Morten Lauridsen’s music irradiates Knowles Chapel
Morten Lauridsen, 70, sits on a pew off to the right of Knowles Memorial Chapel’s nave. Eyes closed, head down, his face suggests a degree of perception, not only as the composer of the ethereal...
View ArticleLos Angeles Master Chorale delivers an ardent B Minor Mass
The Los Angeles Master Chorale resurrected Bach’s B Minor Mass for the group’s grand anniversary in Walt Disney Concert Hall on January 25 and 26, 2014. Powered by 115 singers and a symphonic...
View ArticleFrank Zappa's '200 Motels' will get first full staging Wednesday
LOS ANGELES - At Wednesday's 10th birthday party for Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform the world premiere of Frank Zappa's "200 Motels." It's made up of 13 orchestral...
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