Ernest Bloch is best known for his composition Schelomo for cello and large orchestra but he wrote a ton of music for “large orchestra.” We take an esoteric look at his Avodath Hakodesh: Sacred ...

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wasn't just Oregon's most famous composer. He was also an accomplished photographer who composed images as musical as his symphonies. A photograph of a massive tree punching up through the ground ...

Ernst Bloch writes in 1932 on the importance of the contradictions in the present and nostalgia … Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of ...

When you listen to the music of Ernest Bloch, Oregon's most famous composer, you are hearing a voice unlike any other classical composer of the 20th century. Make that several voices. One of those ...

The German Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), not to be confused with the Swiss Jewish composer Ernest Bloch, is still remembered for such landmark books as “The Spirit of Utopia,” “The ...

Ernest Bloch's two major works for viola, the Suite (1918) and the Suite Hébraïque (1951), were initially written with piano accompaniment, though Chinese-American violist Hong-Mei Xiao has opted to ...

The Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater opened a production of “Macbeth” on Wednesday night, but not the one by Verdi that all opera lovers know. This was a rare performance of Ernest Bloch’s ...

1. Ernest Bloch: Prelude. From “Suite for Violin no. 1”. Roberto Sawicky, violin. 2. Lucienne Bloch Dimitroff speaks about her father composing “Helvetia”. 3. Ernest Bloch: Helvetia, Symphonic Fresco ...

In the 21st century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of ...