Monday: Too Many Concerts
It’s one of those evenings when you wish you could be at two New York concert venues at once! Mohammed Fairouz’s opera, Sumeida’s Song, will be performed at Zankel Hall…
Playing (Less) Hurt – Free Seminar on Injury Prevention for Musicians
Playing music takes a toll on the body. How does a musician, working grueling schedules over a long career, avoid injury? You are invited to attend CMA’s next First Tuesdays…
And Now for Something Completely Different
Igudesman & Joo, Carnegie Hall, April 17
Laurie Spiegel’s appearance in The Hunger Games
How awful is the dystopia in The Hunger Games? Well, if you listen to one cue in the movie, you might be led to believe that only pitch-drifting analog synthesizers…
William Zuckerman and his Symphony Z
In December 2010, as I was still adjusting to the climate change between Houston, Texas and Ann Arbor, Michigan, I heard a piece that has stuck with me ever since.…
Wrapping Up “American Mavericks”
By now, the members of the San Francisco Symphony, their director Michael Tilson Thomas, and the rest of the musicians responsible for the orchestra’s magnificent “American Mavericks” Festival have left…
Crowdsourcing Nawlins
Help me out here. A couple of my acquaintance are celebrating their 40th anniversary in New Orleans in a couple of weeks and asked me where they should go for…
When Music Met Fashion – A Chat with Sugar Vendil
I was sitting in the S21 headquarters–Starbucks on 57th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues–sipping a latte and trying to guess which of the several attractive Asian-American women in the…
Opportunity Knocks – Issue Project Room
ISSUE Project Room is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to fill a part-time contracted position. The position requires coordination of the website and multiple modes of print, in order to…
Conductor and Composer Discuss Resurgence of Wind Ensembles
Brooklyn Wind Symphony Artistic Director Jeff W. Ball interviews Dr. David Maslanka on the music of the late composer John Barnes Chance, “channeling” the composer, and the growing prevalence of…