Review: Xiayin Wang at Alice Tully Hall
[We previewed this concert a couple weeks ago, and were hoping to file a quick review following the performance. Due to unforseen circumstances it’s a few days later than we’d…
Marathon Meets Twitterthon
Yes, it’s that time of year again… The Bang On A Can Marathon is about to take flight once more, this Sunday, May 31 from noon to midnight at the…
New, Newer, Newest Notations
Last year I mentioned seeing an exhibition here in Houston, “Every Sound You Can Imagine“; a compilation of all kinds of newer musical manuscripts and scores. Then just yesterday I…
Go Toward the Light
…That would be the light emanating from New York’s P.S. 122 this Friday and Saturday night, where the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), choreographer Yvan Greenberg and stage director Emma Griffin…
Next Up is First Things First
All the talk last week was for Darcy James Argue’ s Secret Society CD and release gig. The show got rave reviews, the CD’s winging its way into the world,…
Between the Rocking Cradles
Given the rarity of records and performances of the music of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) through the 1970s, my first encounters with him were like everyone else: references in the “populist…
These Windy City Kids Are Wicked Good
Since 1995 Chicago’s Percussion Scholarship Program has been shaping all kinds of mallet-whackers from grades 3 through 12. The program, under the direction of CSO percussionist Patricia Dash and Douglas…
Not-So-Secret Society
You can only keep a secret society secret so long, and with our old S21 pal Darcy James Argue‘s new CD release that time has come. Infernal Machines is out…
Many hands (and ears) make light work
Being an all-volunteer gig, Sequenza 21 has always relied on a cast of characters — almost all musicians themselves — that lend a hand as they can, but often end…
Thanks for All the Fish
As stated in Oberlin College’s ‘Oberwiki’: “…to enter you needed to take a sugar pill with a dot on it…and you rolled the dice, cause 1/3 of the dots were…