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Klara presenter Sylvia Broeckaert is a true Renaissance woman. Music is her passion, with a keen eye for female artists with compelling...
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Miriam Bunnik is a translator and Italy expert. She became known with her previous book Coffee Bars and Carabinieri from 2021. Her new...
On the initiative of MATRIX, a daring project with 'Heads Full of Melodies - Stories from the World of Music' has just...
In the Opera Library series for which Opera Ballet Flanders and Leuven University Press join forces, a...
Three towers equal three lives, actually four, no five, or should we say and write six lives? Insiders can...
It's probably been a long time since you last heard Darius Milhaud's La Création in a concert hall or on a radio station...
Frrieder Reininghaus: Rihm - Der Repräsentative - New Music in the Society of the Federal Republic of Germany Pub. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg...
'Women and the Piano' by English pianist Susan Tomes is, despite the identical cover and similar title, not...
In 2008 I attended a seminar by Jeroen D'hoe on The Great American Songbook at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven. Since...
The latest book about Johann Sebastian Bach is a remarkable book, if only for its treatment of the most discussed...
In this book about Brewaeys, a couple of scores are printed. One of them still has a copy in the compartment...
What is music? When does sound become music? Does music originate in the composer's pen or in the listener's ear...
On July 31st of last year, Cees Nooteboom turned 90. As one of the most renowned Dutch writers, he wrote numerous...
If clothes make the man, then in Boccherini's case it was above all, and repeatedly, his notes...
"Being a composer in Belgium – that's like setting off fireworks in your own basement", is a statement in which Paul Gilson (1865 –...
Giuseppe Verdi Ernani Annelies Andries Aesthetic ideals and nineteenth-century censorship in the theater and opera world Love, honor, revenge: the passions...
No better time to publish a book about Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: the opera is one of the Russian...
When you get this book in your hands, you don't start reading right away. Or maybe you do, but first the...
