Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In the 1920s, when Erwin Schulhoff composed jazz, he was the ardently Enlightened ...

James Conlon led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a triumphant three-part program Friday at Walt Disney Concert Hall. As part of the important “Silenced Voices” project -- music by composers who ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s just-concluded “Silenced Voices” project arrived a bit late in the game, for it was in the 1990s that such previously forgotten, Nazi-persecuted composers as Erwin ...

The teenaged Erwin Schulhoff was an idealist. Even as Europe turned toward war in 1914, he wrote music that was sunny, funny, and full of bounce. (His outlook, and his music, would be VERY different ...

William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony (1929-30) Among the first composers to recognize the expressive potential of jazz in the 1920s was Austro-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff.

Music by the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff is a little bit like the weather in New England, constantly shifting. Schulhoff's Piano Concerto, Op. 43 is a good example. It's more like an orchestral ...

When it comes to concert programming, it often pays to go big or go home. Thursday's matinee offering by the San Francisco Symphony under guest conductor James Conlon made a tentative gesture in the ...