British composer Oliver Knussen — who leapt to fame at 15 conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in his First Symphony, created a wild rumpus of an opera out of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild ...

An unusual convergence is about to take place at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A composer, a conductor, and a soloist will all perform together on stage. What's even more unusual: the three roles ...

Oliver Knussen, composer, conductor, teacher, and director of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music from 1986-1993, died at his home in Snape, England, on July 8 at age 66. Knussen, who first ...

Knussen, the sharpest ear in the business alongside his fellow composer-conductor Pierre Boulez, chooses unorthodox programmes that don’t exactly draw in the punters; some work, others don’t. This one ...

Composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, one of Britain's most influential contemporary classical figures, died Sunday, July 8, at the age of 66. His passing was announced by his publisher, Faber Music, ...

The Morgan Library & Museum explores a dense, underappreciated period in the artist’s career in an exhibition of sketches, dioramas and more. By Zachary Woolfe Quotes from notable actors, musicians, ...

There can have been few composers more ballistically, brilliantly obnoxious than loopy old Karlheinz Stockhausen. Most famously, he declared the attack on the Twin Towers "the greatest work of art".

Oliver Knussen, an influential British composer and conductor who gained renown as a teenage prodigy, adapted the Maurice Sendak picture book “Where the Wild Things Are” into a hit opera and became an ...

The opera “Where the Wild Things Are,” which became one of composer Oliver Knussen’s most beloved works, had its origin when he was in The Bookstore in Lenox and picked up Maurice Sendak’s famous book ...