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VAN Magazine offers a diverse collection of articles that explore contemporary, classical, and early music. Many pieces include sound clips, images, and videos to enhance the experience. The magazine caters to a global readership, with a particular emphasis on classical music in the United States.

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Confluence

2 days ago | van-magazine.com | Joseph Asquith

“Into the Night,” a new work for sitar, Indian classical ensemble and orchestra by sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, begins with a nocturnal luminescence. Warm shimmering string tremolos give a harmonic foundation, over which a sitar melody blooms with bright, undulating streams of notes. These solo melodies become energetic dialogues.
Wendy Carlos Forever • VAN Magazine

1 week ago | van-magazine.com | G. Samantha Rosenthal

At 85, Wendy Carlos remains an enigmatic figure in the world of classical music. Intensely private, she has not granted an interview request in over 15 years.
Gagged!

2 weeks ago | van-magazine.com | Hugh Morris

Contracts seen by VAN show that the management of Northern Ballet has inserted a confidentiality clause into the agreements for its freelance musicians. To continue reading, subscribe now. Unlimited access to ourweekly issues and archives.
Who will save the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra? • VAN Magazine

2 weeks ago | van-magazine.com | Hannah Edgar

When your home becomes a nightmare, what sound does it make? To continue reading, subscribe now. Unlimited access to ourweekly issues and archives.
Kings Place faces backlash over Lockheed Martin links • VAN Magazine

3 weeks ago | van-magazine.com | Hugh Morris

On May 26, Art Not Arms posted an open letter to Kings Place, the London classical music venue and conference center, that called for the cancellation of the upcoming Defence in Space Conference in October. This conference is sponsored by arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin. The open letter noted that Lockheed Martin is involved in the production of F-35 fighter jets currently being used by the Israeli military in Gaza.
Michael Barenboim on his pro-Palestine activism • VAN Magazine

3 weeks ago | van-magazine.com | Jeffrey Arlo Brown

Few prominent classical musicians—and few prominent Germans—have spoken out about Israel’s brutal war in Palestine quite as consistently, as passionately, and with as much attention to detail as the violinist (and son of Daniel) Michael Barenboim. When I met him last month in a quiet corner of a beer garden near the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, where he is a professor of violin and chamber music, he discussed the conflict with precise conviction.
The “Götterdämmerung” of It All!

1 month ago | van-magazine.com | Kate Wagner

I’ve long accepted the fact that I am one of tens of thousands of people who suffer from Wagner derangement syndrome. Many people listen to or watch the works of Wagner, but only an errant few become lifers. Given the sheer baggage of Wagner and the irksome coincidence of our shared surname, this is, of course, devastating.
Kazuki Yamada on Birmingham, Berlin, and bins • VAN Magazine

1 month ago | van-magazine.com | Hugh Morris

Phoning in from Frankfurt—he’s there getting a visa ahead of his conducting debut at La Scala—Kazuki Yamada radiates positivity down the Zoom call. An extremely popular conductor in Birmingham, where he is currently City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s music director and artistic advisor, it was recently announced that Yamada would succeed Robin Ticciati as the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, beginning in 2026.
The gradual unfoldings of Catherine Lamb • VAN Magazine

1 month ago | van-magazine.com | Hugh Morris

Both Catherine Lamb and I arrive for our interview in a west Berlin park slightly distracted, and the universe works to make us more so. First, a bird in a bush behind our bench insists on everyone hearing its loud, virtuosic song; we swiftly relocate to the grass in the middle of the square. Then, a man approaches us asking for water for his dogs; we give it to him, he leaves, and we try to carry on where we left off.
Serious Fun

1 month ago | van-magazine.com | J.R. Patterson

In late February, I watched Lukáš Vondráček perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in that city’s Smetana Hall. He attended the piano like a Victorian surgeon, leaning over the keyboard—a consequence of poor eyesight, I later learned—with a kind of furious concentration, hacking and slashing to reach some imperiled vital organ.