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He was born and raised in Rotterdam, where his father Leendert de Kooning was a liquor distributor and his mother Cornelia Nobel--reputedly a woman of fearsome toughness--ran a sailors' bar on the waterfront. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s. It often used...
I don't want to bore people with my music," says Michael Daugherty. He needn't worry. Daugherty's zany, pop-flavored brand of classical music is lots of things, but boring isn't one of them. His compositions include Elvis Everywhere, a work for string quartet and three Elvis...
Does all this really add up to opera? It's hard to say--and that's the point. For like the rest of Daugherty's music, Jackie O resides in the limbo between classical and pop known as "crossover," the rapidly increasing popularity of which is changing American classical music...
Crossover is nothing new. The Viennese violinist Fritz Kreisler recorded Irving Berlin tunes in 1927, around the same time that a Tin Pan Alley refugee named George Gershwin sent wigs flying with such concert scores as An American in Paris. What has changed is that today's listeners, raised in...
But is it possible for serious composers to mix classical music with rock 'n' roll successfully? Though elements of rock can be heard in the works of such composers as Philip Glass, no one has yet produced a truly crowd-pleasing piece that brings rock into the concert hall or...