Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera was an opponent of Juan Peron's regime in the early 1950s, and consequently, was not well received as a composer at the time. Long before the political turmoil, ...

October 8, 2009 • Gustavo Dudamel has been called "the Obama of classical music." Hear the charismatic 28-year-old conductor from Venezuela officially take over the Los Angeles Philharmonic with a ...

Composer Alberto Ginastera at the piano along with a furry friend. This upcoming weekend, the Kansas City Symphony will be performing an electric, dance-inducing piece of music by the Argentinian ...

Alberto Ginastera is to Argentina as Aaron Copland is to the U.S. Both composers wrote music that captured the nationalist spirit of their respective homelands. Both eventually rejected the use of ...