The University of Chicago will celebrate Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s music over the course of a 10-day festival—one that will examine how his life and work show a transformational change from composing ...

The lone symphony by a composer whose film music helped define the Hollywood sound is now the star of a landmark recording. The Korngold Symphony (Supertrain Records) showcases two historically ...

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Celebrating film music by Korngold - here prefaced by the opening credits for 'The Sea Hawk' - at BardAll concert images by Stephanie Berger for Bard He wrote relatively few film scores, but won two ...

Korngold was a child prodigy, warmly praised by Mahler, who first captivated audiences with the opera Violanta when he was just 18. He later collaborated on theater music with director Max Reinhardt; ...

“That sounds like film music” is a put-down that deserves to be retired. The usual intention is to dismiss a work as splashy kitsch. Over the past century, though, enough first-rate music has been ...

Bard SummerScape is offering the belated American premiere of “Das Wunder der Heliane” as part of a deep dive into Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s work. By Seth Colter Walls ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — ...

Numi Opera, which is devoted to mounting neglected early 20th century operas by politically persecuted composers, is the new kid in town. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the father of the symphonic film ...

UChicago Presents began the 2019–20 season on an uneven note with their premier concert featuring the Chamber Ensemble of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields playing pieces by contemporary ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Michael Cooper Erich Wolfgang Korngold — a Viennese prodigy who wrote several operas before fleeing the Nazis and moving to Hollywood, where his ...