This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Those are the opening bars of the musical Parade and that little bit of music tell you a great deal about the show as a whole. There's the military drum beat ...

A cycle of piano concertos by Ernst Krenek won't be on many people's shopping lists, but Volume 1 in this series was unexpectedly absorbing. All hail its successor, which contains just one piano ...

Alfred Carlson, 85, a composer of atonal music for chamber orchestras and other small groups, died July 29 in Los Angeles of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born in Chicago and brought up in ...

Forty years ago, a girl in a small Wisconsin town sat by a piano and turned the pages of a song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg for her great-uncle Milton. A local soprano was singing. The setting of 15 ...