Miller’s Crossing
My copy of the Miller Theater Fall and Spring schedule landed on the window sill via carrier pigeon yesterday. As always, Columbia University’s indispensible new music venue has some humdingers on tap. The Composer Portrait series this season includes Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wolfgang Rihm, David Sanford, Gerald Barry (in the first large-scale New York exposure for the Irish composer), French spectralist Phillipe Hurel, George Crumb and Peter Lieberson. Except for Salonen and Rihm, the composers are set for pre-concert discussions, live and in color, so to speak. Also on the schedule for December 7, 8, 9 and 11 is the New York stage premiere of Elliott Carter’s only opera, What’s Next?
Anything exciting happening in your town this fall? Give us a good reason to get out of bed tomorrow.
the NSO breaks out a new Jefferson Friedman work [Sacred Heart: Explosion] to open for Beethoven #9 and probes lightly into the American classical past by performing two arias by Korngold (with Renee Fleming), Irving Fine’s Toccata Concertante, Schuman’s Prayer in Time of War, 1943, and Revueltas’s Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca.
Following events in Los Angeles and New York City (and following conductor Iván Fischer’s decline of offer), pressure now builds on the NSO to appoint either a non-Caucasian conductor (young, leading African-American conductors are routinely ignored by the NSO for guest conducting positions) or an increasingly non-dark horse candidate such as Hugh Wolff (who will receive the greatest level of exposure, especially if he fills in for the Mstislav Rostropovich slot).
Marin Alsop strongly promotes middle-brow contemporary classical American music in neighboring Baltimore.
More edgy new music promised by the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/concert/0708-preview.html
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Wake me in 2009.
Since you mentioned the performances of Elliott Carter’s at Miller Theater in December, 2007–which will feature the AXIOM Ensemble and Music Director Jeffrey Milarsky–why not take this opportunity to list AXIOM’s other performances during the 2007-2008 performance season. After all, one good turn deserves another…
–December 7, 8, 9 & 11, 2007
@ Miller Theatre (Columbia University)
ELLIOTT CARTER “What Next?”
Additional repertoire TBD
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
–February 27, 2008
@ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (The Juilliard School)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN “Des canyonx aux etoiles”
Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Soloists TBD
–March 26-30, 2008
@ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (The Juilliard School)
Dance Masterworks of the 20th Century
Featuring members of the renowned Juilliard Dance Division
AARON COPLAND “Appalachian Spring”
GUSTAV MAHLER (arr. de Leeuw) “Kindertotenlieder”
NORMAN DELLO JOIO “Meditations on Ecclesiastes”
George Stelluto, Conductor
–May 3, 2008
@ Miller Theater (Columbia University)
Beyond The Machine 8.0: Electronic and Interactive Music
Repertoire TBD
Not only is Juilliard renovating its physical structure, but its contemporary music environment as well…