If Alma Mahler Had Twittered
What are you doing? @alma Wassup, Tweeps! G. conducting 2nd 2nite. Goes on 4ever. Stuck at home w/ Evl Sis. Boorrring. about1 hour ago from web @AlexZ Did…
Does Going to Julliard, Yale or Harvard Make You a Better Composer?
Okay, let’s put it another way. How important is a top-of-the-line musical education to success as a composer? Can a composer who went to, say, Houston Baptist University, Western Michigan…
Marvin’s Miraculous Musical Marathon
And so it came to pass that our Gaucho Amigo Marvin Rosen was abidin’ over his flock in a starry meadow high in the Cuspadores when an angel appeared unto…
Another Day, Another Wall Street Fraud
Gilbert Kaplan is a Wall Street billionaire who has devoted much of his idle rich time over the past 30 years to studying and conducting Mahler’s great Second Symphony. It…
The Amazing Mr. Carter
We are tardy in adding our voice to the vast chorus of congratulations that have greeted Elliott Carter’s attainment of centenarian status. Getting old is not in itself an achievement,…
Musical Notes From All Over
The Manhattan edition of the Sequenza21/Lost Dog Ensemble concert–as seen in the New York Times–is happening tonight at 8 pm at the Good Shepherd Church, 152 West 66tth Street (between…
Brett Dean Wins 2009 Grawemeyer Award
Hot off the…ur presses. Australian Brett Dean has won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing (2006; if you have RealPlayer installed…
And Now For Something Completely Different
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The Good Lord Willing and the Creeks Don’t Rise
Our buddy Frank J. Oteri’s seldom seen bluegrass band, The String Messengers, will be pickin’ and grinnin’ tonight at the Cornelia Street Cafe, commencing at 8 pm. The whole clan’ll…
Lightning at our Feet
On December 9, 11, 12 and 13, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will present Lightning at our feet, The Ridge Theater and Michael Gordon’s multimedia song cycle inspired by…