Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
Record companies, artists and publicists are invited to submit CDs to be considered for review. Send to: Jerry Bowles, Editor, Sequenza 21, 340 W. 57th Street, 12B, New York, NY 10019
Have you heard of Lera Auerbach? I hadn't but she is a wonderful composer. Born near Siberia in 1973, she studied composition at Julliard.
I've written a review of her 2003 CD for an issue of New Music Connoisseur that will be out soon. The CD is BIS-CD 1242 (Lera Auerbach:24 Preludes for Violin and Piano, T’filah, Postlude. I am just so excited about her music. This CD is available on Amazon and if you are a violinist I encourage you to get the score and perform it if possible. I believe that her Twenty-four Preludes for Violin and Piano, Op. 46 (1999) is published in Hamburg by Hans Sikorski. It is a hour of ravishing beauty.
posted by Beth Anderson
2:36 PM
