Classical Post

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠⁠ ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠⁠⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠⁠ ⁠grow your audience⁠⁠⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠ ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠ ⁠grow your audience⁠⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠grow your audience⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠⁠⁠Gold Sound Media⁠⁠⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠⁠⁠grow your audience⁠⁠⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠⁠Gold Sound Media⁠⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠⁠grow your audience⁠⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠grow your audience⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Classical Post® is created and produced by ⁠Gold Sound Media⁠ ® LLC, a leading New York marketing agency serving the performing arts industry. Explore how we can ⁠grow your audience⁠ to make a lasting impact in your community.

Few faces in classical music are more recognizable right now than that of Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä — not because of his sculptural good looks and piercing blue eyes, but because he's quickly become one of today's most popular conductors.  At just 28 years old, Mäkelä has already racked up an impressive résumé, including his current roles as music director of the Orchestre de Paris, c...

When Justin Austin isn't singing at the Metropolitan Opera, Kennedy Center, or Lincoln Center Theater, you're likely to find him shooting hoops on the basketball court. Sports have been a lifelong passion for the young baritone, but it's more than the game's physical benefits that keep him reaching for a basketball. To Austin, cultivating the mindset of an athlete has consistently...

Classical music so often feels divorced from pop culture, but we don't need to dive too deep into the history books to see how much composers of the past embraced the cultural traditions of their homelands. Béla Bartók traveled across Hungary documenting folk songs, Gustav Mahler wove popular tunes into his First Symphony, and even Mozart composed background music for playing the popular card...

For more than a year now, I've been obsessed with TÁR , the 2022 Todd Field film starring Cate Blanchett as an orchestral conductor whose power plays lead to her devastating downfall. Yes, the story is gripping and suspenseful, but it's the music interlaced throughout the film that keeps me coming back. Aside from the two works performed in the film — Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Elgar&...

Poetry has long served as a point of inspiration for classical composers. Just think of Beethoven's magnificent setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy," Schubert's cinematic take on Goethe's "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," or Ned Rorem's soulful songs based on the words of Frank O'Hara. And now there's a new work to add to this storied tradition from co...

There's an interesting dichotomy baked into the act of composing. Although the music that composers write reflects their own thoughts, emotions, and perspectives, they need to hand that music over to other people to bring it to life. But for Andrew Bennett , a Canadian composer of experimental electronic music who records under the moniker Factor Eight , his own voice is the driving force behi...

When most people think of the pipe organ, they imagine its massive, majestic sound filling a large church during a wedding, funeral, or other Christian ceremonies. But as I learned in my recent conversation with the Austrian concert organist Lukas Hasler , we can trace the instrument's roots to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before the birth of Christ. And despite their prevalence in the ch...

Anyone who's had the pleasure of seeing violinist Rachel Barton Pine perform live knows this is a musician who gives every performance her all. What many people will likely not know is how much that mesmerizing stage presence is informed and inspired by her love of heavy metal music. "[In heavy metal], there's this 150% commitment to feeling the music and sharing it with the person fa...

No matter what line of business you're in, building a new enterprise from the ground up isn't for the faint of heart. From defining your mission to marketing, payroll, and growth strategies, there's a lot to consider — and a lot of opportunities to give up when the challenges feel insurmountable. Conductor Luke McEndarfer encountered many of those moments in his early days leading the...

A postmodern take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Yorgos Lanthimos's new film, Poor Things , sees the director exploring ideas of life and liberty in his uniquely surrealist way. The movie revolves around Bella, played by Emma Stone, a woman in Victorian Britain brought back to life by Dr. Godwin Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe. Eager to learn more about the world around her, Bella sets of...

The architecture world lost a giant when the distinguished Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly died earlier this year at the age of 78. For four decades, Viñoly led his global architecture firm to international renown, bringing to life everything from airports to hospitals, sports stadiums, and performing arts centers — including one very close to my heart, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. Having l...

For conductor and baritone Malcolm J. Merriweather , artistic inspiration has largely sprung from asking questions related to his identity. What role does his work as a Black musician play within the larger tapestry of music history? Who are the artists of the past who contributed to the legacy he's inherited today? As director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus and music director of the Dess...

As busy as composer Anna Clyne is this season — fulfilling commissions for new works and serving as a resident artist with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León — music accounts for a fraction of her artistic inspiration. That's because the Grammy-nominated British composer thrives on incorporating many creative disciplines outside...

When most orchestras commission a new work, they usually ask the composer to produce music that fits on a standard concert program, like a 10-minute overture or a 45-minute symphony. But when BBC Earth approached composers Adam Lukas and James Everingham — along with the two-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer — to compose the score for its latest nature documentary series, Frozen Planet II , the show&#...

Composer Steven Mackey has come a long way since his teenage years studying physics at the University of California, Davis, and learning blues-rock riffs on his guitar. Today Mackey stands as a celebrated composer and electric guitarist whose work is regularly performed by orchestras around the world — including the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the National Symphony , and the Boston Symphony . He&#3...

After years spent touring the world with pop and jazz legends like Julio Iglesias and Babik Reinhardt, pianist Chad Lawson was hungry to find a more intimate avenue for his curiosity and creativity. So he began composing short, ethereal works for solo piano, several of which made their way onto his debut album, 2009's Set on a Hill . Although he began composing as a way to find quiet calm afte...

I'm always curious how many frequent flier miles composers rack up in a year. That's because, to hear a new work performed live, they need to travel to where the concerts are happening. And often times that's major cultural hubs like New York City, London, Berlin, or Tokyo. But an inventive project from harpist Emily Levin is bringing composers much closer to their home turf. GroundWor...

Few classical musicians have an IMDb page as extensive as composer-pianist Volker Bertelmann . In addition to the experimental piano music he composes and performs under the moniker Hauschka , Bertelmann is one of the most prolific film composers at work today. Over the past 15 years, he's scored nearly 60 films and television shows — including titles featuring megawatt stars like Nicole Kidma...