A Small Encounter with Gunther Schuller
It used to be that you could pick up the phone and call someone, and they would answer. And so it was perhaps a decade ago that I called Gunther…
Terry Riley is 80
Happy birthday to composer Terry Riley, who turns 80 today. There are CD releases out this week to celebrate the composer. My assessment of ZOFO Plays Terry Riley appears in…
RIP Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)
Saddening news. Gunther Schuller has died at the age of 89. A musical polymath, Schuller was active as a composer, conductor, arranger, historian, educator, arts administrator and, earlier in his…
ICE at Ojai Music Festival
The International Contemporary Ensemble – ICE – was one of the featured groups performing at the 69th Ojai Music Festival. On Friday, June 12, 2013 ICE presented a varied concert…
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Ojai Music Festival – Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams
The 69th annual Ojai Music Festival featured the West Coast premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams, staged outdoors in Libby Park as a free…
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The Changing Same: Numinous New Music from Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.
If you’re a fan of new music, be it “indie-classical” or whatever it’s being labeled this week, then you must check out the music of composer and conductor Joseph C.…
Back Home/Kinan Azmeh and Co At Subculture NYC
We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in a room by a few people for a few people…
Reinier van Houdt in Los Angeles
The Dog Star 11 series of new music concerts continued on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at The Wild Beast performance space on the campus of Cal Arts. Reinier van Houdt,…
Big Trouble at the Golden Pavilion–Talking to RAkU Composer Shinji Eshima
Meeting someone out of cyberspace can be fun. After a flurry of e-mails discussing various online slots sites, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet double bassist and composer Shinji…