We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...

The reputation of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who died of septicemia in 1915 at age 43, has undergone seismic shifts during the past century. Early success was based on his irresistible ...

When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this ...

Now for one of the Russian front runners Stravinsky versus the guy who started it all for Russia, Glinka. Glinka is an interesting dude. He traveled extensively and ended up in Italy for three years.

Mystical Russian composer Alexander Scriabin saw music, heard colors and wrote music that goes from ecstasy to frenzy. Baltimore Symphony... Postlude To A Kiss: Scriabin's Raging 'Poem Of Ecstasy' I ...

"No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." That's how The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. In his biography of ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Thursday, May 15, 2008 | “Holy sh—!” Alexander Scriabin can provoke that response ...

In the month that marks the 100th anniversary of his death, Donald Macleod explores the life and career of the virtuoso pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) ‘one of the most enigmatic ...

It always seems slightly macabre that we should make such a song and dance about a composer’s demise. But 2015 marks the centenary of Scriabin’s death, and, since the catalogue is by no means as ...

I love composer anniversaries because they afford us opportunities to look at musicians anew, and 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. It's quite possible ...