Author: Jerry Bowles

I come to praise Michael Nyman.  No, really.  Since the nice people at Naxos began distributing Nyman’s MN Records a couple of months ago, several of his musical adventures have…

Click to Play For the past couple of years the Kepler Quartet has been on a mission from God to record all ten of Ben Johnston’s string quartets with their…

Steve Smith, writing this morning in the Center of the Universe Times: During a panel presented recently at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver, the American Music Center and…

Benjaim Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, has become a hot ticket on the corporate leadership circuit. Here’s why:

David V. Foster, whose management firm Opus 3 Artists represents many top performers, conductors and Osvaldo Golijov, has come up with an idea for an annual festival at Carnegie Hall…

You know how you like to put on an Erroll Garner CD sometimes and lie back on the sofa and imagine you’re somewhere–I know–that cool little bar with the piano…

I’ll go first. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Sandstone (W.Va.) High School Gymnasium. 1959. Bill was pissed because the total gate was less than $200 but he was…

Among the cats who know great charts, the names Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan are magic.  Eddie exited a long time ago; Bill, just last week.  [youtube]87_iN2xW6Ks[/youtube] 

Bang on a Can NYC Marathon May 31 – June 1, 2008 6:00pm World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York, NY This year’s Marathon will take place at the World…

For the past couple of hundred years, David Felder has been running June in Buffalo, the venerable annual music festival that traces its history back to Morton Feldman. Having recently…