The Woodstock Summer 2011 Mostly Girl Front Porch Chill Mix
Summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the streets. Or, making playlists. Or something. Some friends who just got themselves a screened-in porch for their…
You Know You’re a Heartbreaker…
If you read S21 regularly (and why wouldn’t you) you probably know that my all-time favorite composer Leoš Janáček had one of the greatest third acts in the history of musical…
ASCAP, League of American Orchestras Present 26 Adventurous Programming Awards
ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras presented 26 Adventurous Programming awards to orchestras who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to contemporary composers at a special Awards Presentation held today during…
One Singer, One Act – Hold the Erwartung
David Robertson will lead the New York Philharmonic in Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff‘s The Isle of the Dead, and Schoenberg‘s Erwartung, with the commodious soprano Deborah Voigt as soloist,…
Trade you a Phil Glass for a Billy Bolcom and a composer to be named later
As a boy, Joe Polisi dreamed of being a major league baseball player. Alas, not everyone grows up to be Derek Jeter so Joe “settled” for becoming Dr. Joseph William…
Chat with Steven Stucky Live at Noon Today (Thursday)
Spring for Music, an annual festival of concerts by North American symphony and chamber orchestras at Carnegie Hall, was created in part to start a conversation about repertoire, about audience…
Chat Live with Melinda Wagner Today at Noon
Spring for Music, an annual festival of concerts by North American symphony and chamber orchestras at Carnegie Hall, was created in part to start a conversation about repertoire, about audience…
Zhou Long Wins 2011 Pulitzer Prize
Madame White Snake by Zhou Long has been awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Frank J. Oteri has the details at NewMusicBox.
The New Synthetists
There’s something happening here. What it is has become a bit clearer (to me, at least) with the simultaneous arrival on my desk of new CDs by Todd Reynolds, the…