February 2016

(This is an expansion of an earlier post for a concert ultimately postponed due to snowstorm Jonas in January) Augustus Arnone performs a double bill of Milton Babbitt’s solo piano…

Commissions Composers Concert review Contemporary Classical Los Angeles Mexico Minimalism Premieres

Cold Blue Music Concert at Monk Space

February 24, 2016 Paul Muller

On February 16, 2016, Tuesdays@Monk Space hosted a concert of Cold Blue Music artists in the lively Koreatown district of Los Angeles. A good crowd came out to hear music…

Concerts Contemporary Classical File Under? New York

G.F. Haas in New York

February 23, 2016 Christian Carey

This week in New York, Austrian Cultural Forum celebrates the music of Georg Friedrich Haas. Haas, currently MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia, is a thoughtful and innovative composer. The…

CDs Contemporary Classical Review

Elliott Sharp: The Boreal

February 23, 2016 Tyran Grillo

Elliott Sharp may sometimes be characterized as a cellular composer, but he is by no means a cellular thinker. Rather, he seems to conceive of things in large swaths of…

Contemporary Classical

Helmut Lachenmann at SpoletoUSA

February 22, 2016 Jerry Bowles

Helmut Lachemann, 80, this November, is one of the most important, original and influential living composers. To hundreds of younger composers whose ambition is to push the boundaries of music…

Composers Contemporary Classical Deaths File Under? New York Video

RIP Steven Stucky

February 15, 2016 Christian Carey

Eminent composer, college professor, and Lutoslawski scholar Steven Stucky has died, aged 66. The cause was brain cancer. Below, listen to one of his beguiling works, the Notturno movement from…

Composers Concert review Concerts Contemporary Classical Downtown Experimental Music Los Angeles

WasteLAnd Concert at Art Share LA

February 10, 2016 Paul Muller

On Friday night, February 5, 2016 a good crowd braved the dreaded 101 freeway closure to travel downtown to Art Share LA . The occasion was …until… the first concert…

Boston Composers Contemporary Classical File Under? Opera

ECCE Ensemble Performs Aylward

February 8, 2016 Christian Carey

On February 12-14 and February 19-20, ECCE Ensemble premieres Switch, a new opera by my friend and colleague composer John Aylward. Directed by Laine Rettmer and conducted by Jean-Phillipe Wurtz,…

Arnone plays Babbitt: A double bill

Cold Blue Music Concert at Monk Space

G.F. Haas in New York

Elliott Sharp: The Boreal

Helmut Lachenmann at SpoletoUSA

RIP Steven Stucky

WasteLAnd Concert at Art Share LA

ECCE Ensemble Performs Aylward

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