concert music

Both are set up for adults over 50 to audit a variety of classes from art and concert music to political science and occupational training.

Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and mercifully fictional P.D.Q.

So for me the project is, how do you bring that into concert music, or how do you write music that is honest and engaged with that tradition, without a fuss?

Brubeck, famous for numbers like “Take Five” and for his pioneering use of unconventional rhythms in jazz, also wrote concert music that reflected his social conscience, particularly on issues of race.

I didn’t know a great deal about concert music.