NY Phil Celebrates Henri Dutilleux
On Tuesday, the New York Philharmonic celebrates French composer Henri Dutilleux, the recipient of the orchestra’s first Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. Dutilleux has decided to use the prize…
Love And Death – San Francisco Ballet Tours Eshima’s RAkU
Meeting someone out of cyberspace can be fun. And so it was after a flurry of e- mails that San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet double bassist and composer…
“This Is Just To Say: Live Art II” – Leonard Nemoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space
You know it’s going to be an exciting evening when one of the performer’s bios states that, among other things, she has performed, “with robots locked inside a Van de…
All Songs Intern “Rips” Buying Music?
This week, one of the topics being avidly discussed on the blogosphere is a post written on the All Songs Considered blog by NPR intern Emily White (read here). There…
Liveblogging the 2012 BOAC Marathon
Last year I decided to try my hand at liveblogging the Bang on a Can Marathon concert and had so much fun doing it, I figured I’d come back and…
Executive Director Position Open at MATA
David T. Little is stepping down as MATA executive director this fall to focus more fully on his compositional life and to pursue other professional endeavors. MATA is looking for…
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Maya Beiser: “Just Ancient Loops” (Video)
We’re pleased to introduce cellist Maya Beiser’s performing the Michael Harrison composition “Just Ancient Loops,” with film by Bill Morrison, which will receive its premiere at the Bang on a…
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The West Coast premiere of Inuksuit at the 2012 Ojai Music Festival
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so consider this photo album a 26,000 word review until I file my story. Inuksuit was one of the most extraordinary…
Ojai Festival 2012
The 66th annual Ojai Festival was kicked off with the West Coast premiere of Inuksuit, the 2009 composition by John Luther Adams. Staged outdoors and directed by Steven Schick, some…
Tonight: Carter premiere at Contact!
103 year old Elliott Carter has written a new work, Two Controversies and a Conversation, which will be premiered tonight at the Met Museum as part of the New York…