Author: Jerry Bowles

American composer Jack Beeson died of congestive heart failure on Sunday, June 6 at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, at the age of 88. His family was with…

Benjamin Lees died of heart failure on Monday, May 31 at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital in Glen Cove, New York at the age of 86. Lees’s work rose…

One of my two favorite young conductors, Brad Lubman (the other is Alan Pearson) is leading the large ensemble Signal in the American premier of The Corridor by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, one…

Jerry, Wanted to make sure this didn’t get by you: Tomorrow (Ed:  now tonight) the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern music series will be  presenting the complete Rite of Spring arranged…

…take a brief survey and tell them how they’re doing.  If you’re a current or lapsed member of the American Music Center or the American Composers Forum, they are hosting…

John Luther Adams has been named the 2010 winner of the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement was made today at the Northwestern University Henry and…

Jean-Yves Thibaudet has had to cancel his Apple Store appearance tonight because of exhaustion from repeated delays in flying from Europe to the United States due to “le vulcan.”  His…

Caught up with our old amigo Marco Antonio Mazzini on Skype the other night and discovered that he has been touring the U.S. with his Belgian group, Thelema Trio, promoting…

Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto, written especially for her former student Hilary Hahn, was co-commissioned in 2009 by the Indianapolis, Toronto, and Baltimore symphony orchestras, as well as by…

This is a post for sound freaks. Some you may know David Chesky as an “orchestra urban composer” whose Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award…