William Bolcom

World of Opera

Betrayal In Brooklyn: 'A View From The Bridge'

October 24, 2008 • William Bolcom's searing opera, based on a play by Arthur Miller, is a sometimes bleak yet always vivid drama set in the Italian-American community of Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the 1950s.

Washington National Opera on World of Opera -- 'A View from the Bridge'

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From the Top

Wagner, High Notes, and a Ghost in Atlanta

January 16, 2008 • This week, the Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center in Georgia hosts From the Top's young musicians, including the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra performing Wagner, a 17-year-old violinist playing a graceful rag by William Bolcom, and a talented teen tenor singing Gounod. This segment originally aired on May 2, 2007.

Wagner, High Notes, and a Ghost in Atlanta

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Music Interviews

Measha Brueggergosman: Classical Cabaret

November 26, 2007 • Measha Brueggergosman is a young soprano on the rise. Her major label debut, Surprise, features offbeat cabaret songs by Satie and Schoenberg. She describes the CD as "classical music letting its hair down."

Measha Brueggergosman: Classical Cabaret

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Prodigies Take the Stage in Aspen

July 18, 2006 • At the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, we hear pieces performed by three remarkable young musicians: 13-year-old Caroline Goulding, 12-year-old Conrad Tao and 13-year-old Peng Peng Gong.

Prodigies Take the Stage in Aspen

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Music

Bolcom's Ragomania: A Nod to Gershwin and Blake

February 20, 2006 • Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. Marin Alsop conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

Bolcom's Ragomania: A Nod to Gershwin and Blake

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The Grammy Awards

William Bolcom Tops Classical Grammy Awards

February 9, 2006 • William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience won the Grammys for best classical album, choral performance, and classical contemporary composition at Wednesday's awards ceremony. Other awards went to the London Symphony and singer Thomas Quasthoff.

William Bolcom Tops Classical Grammy Awards

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Music News

Project Setting Blake's Poetry to Music Now on CD

October 19, 2004 • In the 1950s, composer William Bolcom began an ambitious project to set the 46 poems in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience to music. A massive work, the result premiered in 1984. Now, a recording of Bolcom's work has finally been released. NPR's Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr reports.

Project Setting Blake's Poetry to Music Now on CD

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