The LA Phil today confirmed program details for the first program of its 2025/26 Body and Sound festival—Prometheus with ...

When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this ...

We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...

In 1939, composer Virgil Thomson brought attention to a growing problem in classical music. Despite a dire need for the presentation of new works, orchestras around the globe clung desperately to ...

It was a cold and wet afternoon as I strolled down forlorn Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful ...

Scriabin was one of music’s most extravagant visionaries, whose personal adaptation of Madame Helena Blavatsky’s theosophical ideas became crucial to his thinking. His Third (1902-4) and Fourth ...

I love composer anniversaries because they afford us opportunities to look at musicians anew, and 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. It's quite possible ...

The reputation of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who died of septicemia in 1915 at age 43, has undergone seismic shifts during the past century. Early success was based on his irresistible ...

You can divide Scriabin’s career into two halves. Before about 1900 he was a latter-day Russian Chopin, writing the sort of piano pieces that Chopin might have written had he lived longer; after that, ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island– and dream discs –recordings that would have gone to the top of the charts if only the ...