Andriessen wins 2011 Grawemeyer Award
Congratulations to Louis Andriessen for winning the University of Louisville’s 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. He received the award for La Commedia, his fourth opera. This year’s award is…
A Time & Place
This Friday, December 3rd, is the second concert of the season by the American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall. This concert “explores composers’ reactions to specific moments, pinpointed and analyzed,…
RIP Ann Southam (1937-2010)
We’re saddened to hear the news of Ann Southam’s death this past Thursday after a long battle with cancer. Southam was one of Canada’s foremost composers, an influential teacher at…
If you’ve maxed out on football and turkey…
…surf over to our sister ship, Chamber Musician Today, and check out today’s menu. We have the latest installment in violinist Marjorie Kransberg-Talvi’s remarkable continuing memoirs of growing up as…
I’m Thankful for Prepared Guitars
Thanks to Carlton Wilkinson for sharing this on Facebook! I’ve written about Keith Rowe a couple of times for Signal to Noise, but he hasn’t been in the rotation for…
Punky Cagey Party
Shh! We’re improvising! The Lepers of Melancholy, Houston TX (photo by Jonathan Jindra) While reading Conversing With Cage at a bus stop today, I stumbled across this funny yet in…
Takacs Quartet plays Dan Kellogg
The Takacs Quartet gave the U.K. premiere of Daniel Kellogg’s Soft Sleep Shall Contain You, a hauntingly beautiful, touching “Meditation on Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.” The BBC has made…
Happy 85th Birthday Gunther Schuller!
Who says Barber cornered the market on Adagios?
Live From Ann Arbor: Chapter 2, A Focus On Composer-Performers
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance’s second Student Composers’ concert of the year took place this last Monday, November 15. A hefty buffet of close to…
NYPO plays Grisey and Lindberg on this week’s CONTACT!
The New York Philharmonic kicks off its second season of the new music series CONTACT! this Friday and Saturday at Symphony Space and the Met Museum (tickets/details here). The theme…