Author: Jerry Bowles

I had a great time playing disc jockey on WBGO this afternoon.  The folks there were incredibly hospitable and it was fun to meet Michael Bourne (the other guy in…

My accidental disk jockey gig on WBGO is scheduled for this Thursday at 2 pm. Live and in full color on the Internets at wbgo.org Here’s my playlist: Back Water…

Bard SummerScape is presenting the New Albion Festival, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Foster Reed’s record label known as the “voice of West Coast new music,” at the Spiegeltent…

Trendy indie composer/performer Max Richter’s fourth album, 24 Postcards in Full Colour, won’t be released until September 23 on FatCat Records but thanks to enterprising PR person Amanda Ameer, Sequenza21…

Big Up to our friend and S21 blogger Lawrence Dillon who is one of three winners of  the Ravinia Festival of Highland Park, Illinois’ first composer competition. The competition asked…

Some well-to-do friends of mine purchased at a charity auction recently a chance to play disk jockey for an hour on WBGO in Newark which is, I believe, the most…

Hey, the new Miller Theater schedule is out.  Some great-looking programs, including the New York premiere of Iannis Xenakis’s only opera, Oresteia.  Composer Portraits are:  Peter Lieberson, Oliver Messiaen (centennial…

Our friends at the Metropolis Ensemble will perform a new take on Stravinsky‘s The Rite of Spring called The Rite: Remixed  tonight at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.  Composers Ryan Francis,…

Got four and a half minutes for a meditation on life, religion, and nature? Our friends at Aguava New Music Studio have a new video by Susanne Schwibs, music by…

There are a handful of words that send me reflexively scurrying for the off button:  “Mozart,” “President Bush said today,” “Sandy Duncan,” “drum solo. ”  I loved it when Buddy Rich told Johnny…