Griffiths gives 100 pages of excellent coverage to 20th-century music, the appreciation of which is ... Most disappointing, Griffiths doesn’t present Western music as a thing that one might do oneself ...

He also worked with musicologist Piero Weiss on “Music in the Western World ... Indeed, he seemed at something of a loss in most 20th-century music without a Russian connection.

From Claude Debussy to Leonard Bernstein, we celebrate some of the very best music written after 1900, through the lens of ten landmark works. The 20th century ushered in a period of drastic ...

Naomi reminds us that music in the 20th century pushes boundaries ... Anything deemed to have a ‘western’ or modern influence was considered inappropriate. After Stalin died, Shostakovich ...

In the beginning of the 20th Century, a musical wave swept ... which had achieved great heights in Indian classical music, had an exponent of Western Music. The report was published in the ...

Founded in 1924, Curtis’ alumni list reads like a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century music: Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Jennifer Higdon, George Walker, and a host of other composers and ...