Live from New York
Surprisingly good news for all those who still harbor hopes of major orchestras as dynamic, living institutions: the New York Philharmonic has just announced that Alan Gilbert will be its…
2007 Pulitzer Prize and finalists to be announced at 3:00 pm
Place your bets! And the winner is: Awarded to “Sound Grammar” by Ornette Coleman, recording released September 12, 2006. Other finalists: Also nominated as finalists in this category were: “Grendel”…
Galina Ustvolskaya, 1919-2006
The Russian composer Galina Ustvoskaya died yesterday. Alex Ross has the details and the (appropriately) terse, German notice from her publisher, Sikorski. I don’t have time now to write much…
Come on, you know you care, a little bit…
It’s that time of the year again, folks, when composers around the world turn their attention to Los Angeles, with bated breath, waiting to hear who is, in fact, the…