The first time was the charm, even if that first time took decades to arrive. Late last year the Houston Symphony earned its first ever Grammy Award nomination for best opera recording with "Berg: ...

Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera. By Joshua Barone His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu ...

One of the worst times of a military deployment is the holidays. No matter how big the care packages are, no matter what special food they whip up in the chow hall, most soldiers are thinking of home ...

Alban Berg’s Lulu is a complex, psychological thriller that became one of the most important and notorious stage works of the 20th century. Berg (1885-1935) adapted from the Lulu plays by German ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, ...

Not a bad gap year for the Minnesota Orchestra. Between Osmo Vänskä's departure from the music director position in spring 2022 and Thomas Søndergård's slated arrival in fall 2023, the orchestra made ...

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings and sculptures—which have fetched up to $1m at auction—and for his films, which often depict the process of creating and ...

His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu” almost 40 years after Berg’s death was considered one of the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th century. By David Allen Singers tended to fade into ...

Schoenberg praises his pupil, Alban Berg and talks of his surprise that he could write an opera with the ferocity of Wozzeck ...

Donald Macleod surveys the life, loves and music of Alban Berg. As a youngster, Berg loved the music of Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss and composed 34 songs as a teenager. Maybe this would have ...