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Hitting the Asphalt

August 3, 2010 Steve Layton

In this space just a year ago we told you about Asphalt Orchestra‘s Lincoln Center Out of Doors hit-the-streets, in-you-face debut last summer. Well, what a year they’ve had! In…

Bang on a Can Concerts Festivals

BOAC Marathon redux at MASS MoCA

July 30, 2010 Steve Layton

North Adams MA’s summer claim to fame, the Bang on a Can summer music fest, has been going great guns the past week, and wraps up Saturday, July 31, with…

Band Music CDs Classical Music Composers Review Twentieth Century Composer

Bands Apart

July 15, 2010 Steve Layton

Broadcast CDs Cello Composers Contemporary Classical Interviews New York Percussion Premieres Radio

Tune in Wednesday for Marvin, Morty and Maya

July 13, 2010 Steve Layton

Heads-up, listeners! WPRB‘s Classical Discoveries host Marvin Rosen has a couple nice treats through the day this Wednesday: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 11:00am (EDT) Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde will…

Composers Concerts Contemporary Classical Festivals

The Show-Me State puts on a show

July 11, 2010 Steve Layton

Mention of our composer pal Jeremy Podgursky a couple days ago brought this late word (but better late than never, right?): Gary Kass wrote to tell us about the inaugural…

Brooklyn Chamber Music Composers Concerts Contemporary Classical New York

Nonsense or Sorcery?%#*!

July 7, 2010 Steve Layton

Jeremy Podgursky — one of the composers we liked so much that he ended being selected for our last S21 concert presentation — is throwing a joint shindig with fellow…

Concerts Contemporary Classical New York Songs

After all, who invented fireworks anyway?

July 1, 2010 Steve Layton

Staying in NYC this 4th of July holiday weekend? Then come partake of some musical fireworks and pan-patriotic pride as vocalist extraordinaire Phillip Cheah (his vocal range could well classify…

Concerts Contemporary Classical Downtown Improv New York

Concoct Sonance

June 30, 2010 Steve Layton

Amos Elkana was one of the composers I found/heard/met almost a decade ago on the original grand experiment in social music-sharing, MP3.com. With an obsidian-like hardness, sheen and edge, his…

Concerts Contemporary Classical Festivals Ojai

Ojai-oh!

June 10, 2010 Steve Layton

Kicking off in just a matter of hours, this year’s Ojai Music Festival has a schedule sure to make a number of East-Coasties feel they picked the wrong ocean to…

Contemporary Classical Mexico Obits Performers Video viola

Omar Hernández-Hidalgo, 1971-2010

June 7, 2010 Steve Layton

There’s a lot of shock and sadness in the Mexican classical community just now: last week one of the finest violists in Mexico and the world, Omar Hernández-Hidalgo, was found…

Hitting the Asphalt

BOAC Marathon redux at MASS MoCA

Bands Apart

Tune in Wednesday for Marvin, Morty and Maya

The Show-Me State puts on a show

Nonsense or Sorcery?%#*!

After all, who invented fireworks anyway?

Concoct Sonance

Ojai-oh!

Omar Hernández-Hidalgo, 1971-2010

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