Mikel Rouse ticket giveaway
Mikel Rouse’s song cycle Gravity Radio is given its New York premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday and Thursday evening. The nice folks at BAM have offered for…
Sequenza 21/MNMP Call for Scores
Call for Scores: Deadline: January 31, 2011 The contemporary classical music website Sequenza 21 (https://www.sequenza21.com), in partnership with Manhattan New Music Project (http://www.mnmp.org/), is pleased to issue a call for…
And the Grammy nominees are…
The 53rd Annual Grammy nominations have been announced (list of nominees in the Classical category here). Lots of contemporary classical represented, even in the more general categories. Congratulations to Steve…
Stocking stuffers online: Sony’s Ariama
The latest vendor to wade into the online sales arena is Sony’s Ariama. The site’s “public beta” version was recently unveiled. That means that the store is up and running,…
Andriessen wins 2011 Grawemeyer Award
Congratulations to Louis Andriessen for winning the University of Louisville’s 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. He received the award for La Commedia, his fourth opera. This year’s award is…
RIP Ann Southam (1937-2010)
We’re saddened to hear the news of Ann Southam’s death this past Thursday after a long battle with cancer. Southam was one of Canada’s foremost composers, an influential teacher at…
I’m Thankful for Prepared Guitars
Thanks to Carlton Wilkinson for sharing this on Facebook! I’ve written about Keith Rowe a couple of times for Signal to Noise, but he hasn’t been in the rotation for…
Happy 85th Birthday Gunther Schuller!
Who says Barber cornered the market on Adagios?
NYPO plays Grisey and Lindberg on this week’s CONTACT!
The New York Philharmonic kicks off its second season of the new music series CONTACT! this Friday and Saturday at Symphony Space and the Met Museum (tickets/details here). The theme…
Strata gets Metaclassical
Strata – a trio consisting of pianist Audrey Andrist, clarinetist Nathan Williams, and violinist/violist James Stern – has just started a new commissioning project. Abetted by a grant from the…