Author: Jerry Bowles

Nicholas Maw, the British-born composer who was probably best-known for the violin concerto he wrote for Joshua Bell, the lengthy orchestral work Odyssey and the opera, Sophie’s Choice, died yesterday…

The brilliant young pianist Xiayin Wang will perform back-to-back world premieres of Sean Hickey’s Cursive and Richard Danielpour’s Enchanted Garden, Preludes Book 11, two new works for piano,  in her…

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of In C, the Kronos Quartet is “curating”  a star-studded gathering of musicians who will perform In C in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall for…

Steve Reich has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Double Sextet.  Frank J. Oteri has details here. To which I say:  it’s about damned time. UPDATE: NPR’s…

Things have been pretty quiet over at the S21 Naxos blog for awhile but there is a terrific post up now by Collin Rae, Naxos of America’s Marketing and Special…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q[/youtube] Obituary

Hey, remember a couple of weeks ago when I asked if anyone knew a video blogger for a special project.  I found one and not only is she a terrific…

Congratulations to our Peruvian-born, Belgium-abiding amigo Marco Antonio Mazzini who was one of the 90 or so musicians from 30 countries chosen from submitted videos to play in the YouTube…

Schuyler Chapin, the legendary former general manager of the Met, died yesterday at 86.  Composer Matthew Zachary Johnson, who served as Mr. Chapin’s secretary for the past four years, has…

There are beings that are just too special for this world. They arrive, fully-formed, on the messy little stage of your life and immediately dazzle you with their stunning beauty…