Exploring the Metropolis, an organization that helps performing artists get workspace, administers a 3-month musicians’ residency for composers based in NYC. Composers who are selected receive three months of free…
Hello Jerry Bowles, Kyle Bartlett here, I am a composer and also the New Works Administrator for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. I am hoping you may post information about…
Sunday was a big day for the brilliant young Slovakian contrabassist Roman Patkoló. First, he played two new works commissioned especially for him by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation–Duo concertante for Violin…
Among your name brand violinists, Anne Sophie-Mutter has been the most ardent champion of modern and new music. There are few, if any, 20th century violin masterworks that she hasn’t…
Hilary Hahn was supposed to be in Japan this week on a recital tour with her frequent collaborator Valentina Lisitsa but nature had other plans. The catastrophic twin disasters of…
If you’re looking for a place to hang out with some pretty famous composers, polish off your latest music project and hear it played in a historic venue by professional…
Ladies and gentlemen, for your St. Patrick’s Day dining and dancing pleasure, here is the fourth movement of Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 10. I think you will recognize the…
In every field of endeavor, there are people who are famous for being unknown. Perhaps unknown is the wrong word–more like known and admired mainly by others in the same…
Joe Morello, the adventuresome drummer in Dave Brubeck’s most famous quartet, has died at 82. Tucked away at the bottom of his obituary in the New York Times is this…
Looks like I”m doing some softball questions again. For a pair of pretty expensive tickets to the NYPhil performance of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, at Avery Fisher Hall on…