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 ...

Three years ago in San Francisco, Ernest Bloch felt ill and worried, and under the pressure of a strong physical strain he composed some of his saddest music. Cantor Reuben R. Rinder, of Temple ...

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 ...

At. 72, modernist Composer Ernest Bloch is resigned to the fact that he is quite an old man. He lives in semi-retirement at Agate Beach, Ore., gathering and polishing beach stones, gardening and ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s about time that someone went to bat for Bloch. The Swiss-born composer who was born in 1880 and immigrated to the U.S. during World War I, is mainly remembered for his Hebrew rhapsody, “Schlomo.” ...

When you encounter Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo,” you’re struck by an immediate feeling of profundity and deep emotional vulnerability. As cellist Joshua Roman recalls, “The first recording I heard was of ...

For all of the attention lavished upon West Coast composers lately, one who has mostly escaped the net is Ernest Bloch. Though Swiss-born, Bloch lived a good deal of his life on the West Coast, ...

Ernest Bloch, famous American-Jewish composer, is now at work on a new musical setting for the Jewish services, which he expects to have ready within a year. Mr. Bloch began work on this music last ...