August 2012

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August 31, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Updated : 9/6/12 with added thoughts from Laura Kaminsky. Every so often we have a conversation that changes us for the better. Sometimes, we have this type of conversation with…

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Gloria Cheng Plays John Cage in Pasadena

August 25, 2012 Paul Muller

The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage was celebrated in Pasadena, California at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center with a concert by Gloria Cheng titled Two Sides…

Contemporary Classical

The Proms: Cage et al, Ligeti, Berio, Xenakis, Andriessen, Harvey, and Vaughan Williams

August 24, 2012 Rodney Lister

Maybe the BBC didn’t pull out all the stops to celebrate the John Cage centennial, but they did pull out quite a lot of them. August 17 was Cage day…

Contemporary Classical Festivals New York

Symphony Z at the Lower East Side Music Festival

August 24, 2012 Garrett Schumann

Last week, I talked to Brooklyn-based composer William Zuckerman about living in New York, his ensemble Symphony Z (featured left) and his new album Music In Pluralism. I featured Symphony…

Contemporary Classical

At the Proms: Neuwirth, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera

August 21, 2012 Rodney Lister

On August 13 the violist Lawrence Power and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, presented the first UK performance of Olga Neuwirth’s Remnants of Songs… an Amphigory. The title…

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The Proms: British Pride (Finnissy, Ferneyhough, Birtwistle, Elias, et al.)

August 17, 2012 Rodney Lister

One of the most appealing and satisfying things about the Proms is the way that they support and showcase British composers. There are a number of commissions each year (a…

Contemporary Classical

My First Slice of This Year’s Proms

August 15, 2012 Rodney Lister

The BBC Proms is massive and rich festival with lots of moving parts. What one makes of any one season largely depends on which slice of it one happens to…

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August 15, 2012 Christian Carey

Today would have been Lukas Foss’s ninetieth birthday, and I’m remembering him fondly. Linked here is a piece I wrote for NewMusicBox, commemorating him after his passing in 2009. Thanks…

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Thursday: John Cage Day at MoMA

August 8, 2012 Christian Carey

I’ve been greatly enjoying Third Coast Percussion’s new CD/DVD release on Mode. John Cage: The Works for Percussion 2 captures some of Cage’s early music in which he assisted both…

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The Unanswered Petition (Save Ives’s House!)

August 7, 2012 Christian Carey

Way back in September, Charles Ives scholar Jan Swafford reported in Slate that the Ives home in Redding, Connecticut, built by the composer and for many years maintained by his…

Kaminsky Comments

Gloria Cheng Plays John Cage in Pasadena

The Proms: Cage et al, Ligeti, Berio, Xenakis, Andriessen, Harvey, and Vaughan Williams

Symphony Z at the Lower East Side Music Festival

At the Proms: Neuwirth, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera

The Proms: British Pride (Finnissy, Ferneyhough, Birtwistle, Elias, et al.)

My First Slice of This Year’s Proms

Lukas …

Thursday: John Cage Day at MoMA

The Unanswered Petition (Save Ives’s House!)

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