Bird Lives! In Philadelphia, Of All Places
The joyous news from Philadelphia today is that Bird Lives! Opera Philadelphia is doing its first premiere in almost four decades and it’s Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, composed by Daniel Schnyder,…
Homecoming: Sir Simon Rattle Named Music Director of LSO
The London Symphony Orchestra announced today the appointment of Sir Simon Rattle as its Music Director. He will take up his appointment in September 2017, following in the footsteps of…
Mata Festival Turns 17; Gets Curiouser and Curiouser
MATA Festival celebrates its seventeenth year, Monday, April 13 to Saturday, April 18, 2015, showcasing the wild variety of today’s compositional climate with a sweeping range of original compositions by…
Big Night at the Grammys for the Adams Boys
The two living American composers who share the name John Adams were the big winners at last night’s Grammy Awards. John Adams, of Nixon in China and Death of Klinghoffer…
Carnegie Hall to Commission 125 New Works in Next Five Years
Carnegie Hall will mark its 125th anniversary next season by launching a new music project that will commission 125 new works over the next five years. Carnegie will present 15…
New Music at the Lincoln Center Festival
The Lincoln Center Festival schedule is out and, as usual, it has lots of goodies for new music lovers. The festival opens with Danny Elfman’s music from the films of…
ICE Gets $450,000 from Mellon Foundation for OpenICE Initiative
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) has received a $450,000 award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support OpenICE, a new initiative, that will yield more than 150 new concerts…
New Music at Spoleto USA 2015
Next to the early and unlikely appearance of Mr. Eliot’s cruelest camellias, the most anticipated January event for many of us wintering in the Low Country is the arrival (in…
ETHEL Celebrates 10 Years of Grand Canyon Residency
For the past decade, the nationally acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has served as the Ensemble-in-Residence of the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). To date, ETHEL’s…
Peter Schulthorpe’s Earth Cry
A reminder of the muscular, haunting style of Peter Schulthorpe, who passed away a couple of days ago.