We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...

The reputation of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who died of septicemia in 1915 at age 43, has undergone seismic shifts during the past century. Early success was based on his irresistible ...

I love composer anniversaries because they afford us opportunities to look at musicians anew, and 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. It's quite possible ...

Russian composer Alexander Scriabin wanted his music to bring about the apocalypse. As Valery Gergiev and the LSO start a cycle of his symphonies, here's a selection of his scores that might well come ...

In 1986, before his final concert in Moscow, legendary virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz was asked his opinion of two composers whose music he had played all his life. He lavished his highest praise on ...

Between 1903 and his death in 1915, Scriabin composed 20 single-movement piano pieces that he called "poémes". They vary in length from around half a minute (the Poème Fantasque Op 45 No 2) to over 11 ...

It was a cold and wet afternoon as I strolled down forlorn Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful ...

I recently posted a piece on Chopin and Baden Powell and how musically (I mean in terms of feeling, psychic and sonic imagery) they can be connected. [audio:http ...

We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...