John Corigliano is certainly one of the new generation of composers that are equally at home in the theater and the concert stage. He is a native New Yorker, educated there at Columbia, and worked for WQXR, Columbia Masterworks, and with Leonard Bernstein on the Young People’s Concert series. He has taught at the Manhattan School, CUNY...
The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra
Films have been accompanied by music almost since their inception, whether adapted from pre-existing compositions, or newly composed. And from the beginning, for many there has been a somewhat subconscious tendency not quite to accord the genre of original music for the cinema the same artistic respect as that composed for the concert stage. ...