Author: Jerry Bowles

It seems somehow fitting after a week of inexplicable madness that Julia Wolfe’s My Beautiful Scream will get its New York premiere tomorrow night when the Kronos Quartet joins the Brooklyn Philharmonic for…

Delighted to report that our regular Cary Boyce was among five composers selected from a field of 128 entries representing 35 states to participate in the May 2007 Essentially Choral reading session–an…

Nice piece by Anne Midgette in today’s Times about Ingram Marshall whose work I happen to like a lot.  Put him down for your new “Underrated” column, Trevor.

Galen’s Take a Friend to Orchestra (TAFTO) piece is up today on Drew McManus’ Adaptistration blog.  Good reading for a nasty, rainy day. Frank J. Oteri will be interviewing Olga Neuwirth at…

A million wet puppy kisses to Alex Ross for the Sequenza21 shout out in this week’s New Yorker.  We love you, too.

The big news out of Los Angeles this morning is that Gustavo Dudamel, the 26-year-old Venezuelan wunderkind, will replace Esa-Pekka Salonen when he leaves the LA Phil at the end of his…

Happy Easter or Passover or whatever mystery cult holiday your side of Abraham’s futon celebrates this time of year.  It’s a chilly one here in the Center of the Universe; about…

For those of you who may not be familiar with it, there is a seminal document called The Cluetrain Manifesto that defines a new style of communication in an age in…

Kevin Gallagher, guitarist and founder of Electric Kompany, writes:  I noticed in your Jacob TV piece that there was hardly any mention of the fact that Electric Kompany is doing…

Contrary to speculation that the mystery man in Friday’s photo is a Guantanamo detainee or a middle school crossing guard, the fashion-forward gentleman in question is, in fact, the Dutch composer Jacob…