The Subterranean Review

  Beautiful song cycle by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen (born 1952) - 'Let me tell you': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcveHFQ6X...

Last week the Panamese/Dutch soprano Marianne Blok has died. She was 80. She was one of the great voices of the Netherlands, and sang in m...

The world is in crisis, and this crisis is one of modernity. This modernity was born in the West, and has conquered the rest of the globe, e...

Nothing shows the lack of philosophical thinking more than the moment when academics or composers talk about the 'advanced language'...

This October there will be a festival in the Netherlands celebrating the musical heritage of 17C Dutch composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, a...

In the 19th century, romanticism was a strong force in classical music, as it was in poetry and literature. But where did it come from? Why ...

  The first obstacle that the creative mind faces in its development, is convention. The creative spirit wants, above anything else, to do t...