Babbitt Starter Kit?
A few people asked me which works would I would recommend to serve as a starter course for Milton Babbitt’s work. That’s a tricky one: I’d say String Quartets Nos.…
Composers Play Composers Marathon to include Babbitt Tribute
Composers Concordance is hosting a Composers Play Composers Marathon tonight featuring 21 participants. Peter Jarvis has sent word that, in honor of Milton Babbitt’s recent passing, he’ll be performing Milton’s…
Milton Babbitt, RIP
Composer Paul Lansky writes at his Facebook page: “I’m sorry to report that Milton Babbitt died this morning at age 94. He was a great and important composer, and a…
February in Fredonia, pt.1: Jamie Jordan
While the Weather Channel might only associate our flyover community with snow & cold every year, here in western New York at SUNY Fredonia things are heating up with the…
Snow Twofers for Metropolis Tonight at LPR
Hi Jerry, Hope you are well, Happy New Year! Because of the snow, we’ve set up a 2 for 1 ticket code and private link for your readers to our…
Finnissy in Boston
Over the last two weeks I’ve been intensely involved in the final stages of preparations for the annual New England Conservatory Preparatory School Contemporary Music Festival, other known as Today’s…
Dan Deacon & So Percussion, 1/20/11
Before any of the musical gadgetry could be used on night three of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin concert hall, the audience rang the evening’s first notes by singing…
Standing Room Only for ‘Crescendos”
2011 got off to a slow start in terms of new music in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Don’t get me wrong; there have been plenty of great individual and chamber recitals…
Ready or not, here he comes
A positive review by Dana Astmann of Richard Wilson’s opera, Aethelred the Unready, over at Parterre Box. It’s scheduled for a Symphony Space performance on Tuesday, Jan. 25.
David Bruce: The Next Osvaldo Golijov?
I had never heard of David Bruce until I was assigned to review a concert by Art of Elan, a local concert series affiliated with the San Diego Museum of…