Sublogic Elysium (2020)

American composer, conductor and educator, Lukas Foss, has contributed profoundly to the circulation and appreciation of music from the 20th century. He began his musical studies in Berlin, where he studied piano and theory with Julius Goldstein (Herford). Goldstein introduced Foss to the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, which proved to have a profound effect on Foss's musical development. In 1933, Foss went to Paris, where he studied piano with Lazare Levy, as well as composition with Noel Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes and flute with Marcel Moyse. Foss remained in Paris until 1937, when he moved, with his family, to the United States, where he continued his musical instruction at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In addition to his Curtis studies, Foss studied conducting with Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center. He also studied composition with Paul Hindemith as a special student at Yale from 1939 to 1940...

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Finnish melodic metallers STRATOVARIUS will release their thirteenth full-length studio album, "Elysium", in Asia on January 12, 2011 via JVC and in the rest of the world on January 14, 2011 through earMUSIC/Edel.The cover artwork was created by Gyula Havancsák

ELYSIUM is the anticipated debut album of Grace and Fire. This beautifully illustrated 6-panel digipak with 12 page booklet tells the journey into a world that resembles Dante's Inferno. Each band member adds their unique style, but blends into a coherant set of tracks, each one different from the last and yet one feels the album would be incomplete without them all. Production and mixing by Threshold's Karl Groom at Thin Ice Studios is indicative of the quality that can be expected. Listen out for the guest musicians with a cameo from Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater/Sons of Apollo) and Yngwie Malmsteen vocalists Göran Edman and Mark Boals joining up with André on a couple of tracks.