New in VAN Archives • VAN Magazine https://van-magazine.com/mag/category/new-in-van/ An independent online classical music magazine Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:36:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://van-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-van-logo-square-32x32.png New in VAN Archives • VAN Magazine https://van-magazine.com/mag/category/new-in-van/ 32 32 192294250 She’s a Witch! https://van-magazine.com/mag/alma-mahler-witch-sexism/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:36:04 +0000 https://van-magazine.com/?p=30844

Alma Mahler was a witty socialite with an appetite for sex and an eye for talent. By early adulthood, she had become a prolific composer. More than anything, she aspired to be Great, with a capital G. But Alma’s claim to fame, so eloquently outlined in her obituaries, is the long list of geniuses with […]

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]]> 30844 A Music and Chess Playlist https://van-magazine.com/mag/chess-playlist/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:36:03 +0000 https://van-magazine.com/?p=30839

When he wasn’t busy scoring for the likes of Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Elio Petri, Brian De Palma and Terrence Malick, Ennio Morricone could be found hunched over a chessboard. He was a good enough player to hold former world champion Boris Spassky—who famously lost to Bobby Fischer in 1972—to […]

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