Jeffrey Arlo Brown

He Left the Berlin Philharmonic to Find His Voice. He Found a World Stage.

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The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer.

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Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s Paradise,” leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies).

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Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale.

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Luciano Berio, who would have turned 100 this year, anticipated an overwhelming media culture in his classic “Sinfonia.”

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The composer, who turns 90 this fall, has expanded the spectrum of sounds that instruments produce and that audiences can perceive.

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Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it.

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One of Haas’s former students reflects on his time with a teacher who had lessons to offer in music, doubt and influence.

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“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has a rare blood disease.

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The composer’s latest work, “Theta,” born of the pandemic, loss and long swims in open water, is premiering in Germany.