Special: Daniel Levitin for S21
It’s my pleasure to pass on a terrific piece, written for S21, by Daniel Levitin. In addition to teaching at McGill University and being a real mensch, Levitin is the…
The 2008 S21 Concert Program!!!
Thanks very much to everyone who submitted scores. All of us were very impressed by the overall quality of the submissions. The selected compositions in alphabetical order by composer are:…
Harris Wulfson (1974-2008)
Harris passed away this week. He and I were in the PhD Composition program at CUNY, admitted the same year–though he decided to go to CalArts first. I scarcely knew…
Poor little computer
From composer Paul Laino. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSasEp1-j1Q And don’t forget: the S21 concert submission postmark deadline is one week from today. Fire me an e-mail; Pierrot or subsets thereof.
Ahn Trio: Wide Awake
Track three of Lullaby for my Favorite Insomniac, the latest album from the Ahn Trio, is a piano trio arrangement of “My Funny Valentine;” track sixteen is also “My Funny…
An inconvenient opera?
I move that the role of Al Gore be essayed by the entire La Scala Opera Chorus! Wait . . . no: Anna Netrebko–who wouldn’t drive a Prius for her?…
Friday Night Clearing House
I always walk around with a guilty conscience. My inbox gets loaded all the time with press releases and so forth, and I’m a bit stingy about passing on the…
Brrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Think you’re too cool for Facebook? Not any more you’re not. S21 has put the freeze on the Internet’s leading social networking site. Get over there and join the Sequenza21…
Let’s do it again!
Sequenza21 is pleased to scoop the rest of the world wide web and announce the most exciting news of the day in the world of new music. On December 4…