Sculpture Archives an exclusive Classical Music e-Magazine Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:08:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Musicians and Artists: Schoenberg and a Tour of the Nelson-Atkins Museum https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-schoenberg-and-a-tour-of-the-nelson-atkins-museum/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-schoenberg-and-a-tour-of-the-nelson-atkins-museum/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:30:41 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=142240 Adam Schoenberg’s Picture Studies In a modern version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, where he walks around an exhibition of his friend Viktor Hartmann’s paintings, American composer Adam Schoenberg (b. 1980) created his own tour around the Nelson-Atkins Museum

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-schoenberg-and-a-tour-of-the-nelson-atkins-museum/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Silverman and 5 Artists https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-silverman-and-5-artists/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-silverman-and-5-artists/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:37:50 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=140662 Inspirations Behind Tracy Silverman’s Between the Kiss and the Chaos Created initially as music for five scenes from a puppet opera, composer and electric violinist Tracy Silverman combined the idea of creation in the arts with his ideas of how

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-silverman-and-5-artists/feed/ 1 Musicians and Artists: Montalbetti and 3 Artistic Styles https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-montalbetti-and-3-artistic-styles/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-montalbetti-and-3-artistic-styles/#respond Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:04:36 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=140369 Eric Montalbetti’s Trio Inspired by Suprematism, Orphism, and Futurism French composer Eric Montalbetti (b. 1968) designed his Trio for violin, cello, and piano around three modernist artistic styles: Suprematism, Orphism, and Futurism. Suprematism was developed by the Soviet artist Kazimir

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-montalbetti-and-3-artistic-styles/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Stylianou and 12 Artists https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-stylianou-and-12-artists/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-stylianou-and-12-artists/#respond Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:08:18 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=139025 The medium of the Prelude has been used by composers for a number of different vehicles. At first, they were literally the music that came before, i.e., preceded another piece. The first one dates from 1448. Then, they were used

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-stylianou-and-12-artists/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Heggie and 5 Women in Sculpture https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-heggie-and-5-women-in-sculpture/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-heggie-and-5-women-in-sculpture/#respond Sat, 17 May 2025 16:51:28 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=136842 Inspirations Behind Jake Heggie’s Statuesque American composer Jake Heggie (b. 1961) looked at the statues of five women and wrote his song cycle Statuesque in their honour. He worked with Gene Scheer, an American songwriter, librettist, and lyricist who had

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-heggie-and-5-women-in-sculpture/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Baley and 4 Birds https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-virko-baley-sculptured-birds-clarinet-piano/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-virko-baley-sculptured-birds-clarinet-piano/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:18:48 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=135058 Virko Baley: Sculptured Birds For his work for clarinet and piano, Sculptured Birds, Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley (b 1938) chose four modern artists for his four movements, beginning in 1978 and continuing in 1982 through 1984. The Sculptured Birds suite

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-virko-baley-sculptured-birds-clarinet-piano/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Krash and 14 Women https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-krash-and-14-women/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-krash-and-14-women/#respond Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:02:07 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=134789 Jessica Krash: Be Seeing You American composer Jessica Krash was commissioned by two Washington DC arts institutions, the National Gallery of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts to create a work based on 14 works of

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-krash-and-14-women/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Daugherty and Borglum https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-borglum/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-borglum/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:43:24 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=134596 Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore It looms over the Black Hills of South Dakota: a massive sculpture carved into the face of Mount Rushmore, which stands a massive 60 feet (18m) high. The heads of four presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-borglum/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Byström and Kusama https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:14:59 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=134143 Britta Byström: Infinite Rooms Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) has taken the idea of dots and pumpkins to an infinite extreme. She says that creating art is how she maintains her sanity, ‘I followed the thread of art and

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]]> https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-bystrom-and-kusama/feed/ 0 Musicians and Artists: Daugherty and Featherstone https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-featherstone/ https://interlude.hk/musicians-and-artists-daugherty-and-featherstone/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:31:54 +0000 https://interlude.hk/?p=132256 The image itself is familiar enough: a green lawn with pink flamingos on it. This sculpture was created in 1957 by the American artist Don Featherstone as part of his work for Union Products, an injection mould plastics company. All

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