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When Music and Art Collide

April 26, 2010 Armando Bayolo

On Friday, April 30, 2010, my ensemble, Great Noise Ensemble, will present the last concert of our 2009-10 concert season. The program, presented at Ward Hall, on the campus of…

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Make it so

April 25, 2010 Steve Layton

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz has been a great friend of new music, a great friend of S21, and a great friend of myself personally for about as long as I’ve been online.…

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Pianos East and West, tuned and retuned

April 22, 2010 Steve Layton

We may have missed the first volleys of southern California’s MicroFest — concerts devoted to tunings other than our standard, boring old 12 steps to the octave — but there’s…

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La Commedia or, my dinner with Louis

April 21, 2010 Armando Bayolo

Thursday, April 15 marked the New York premiere of Louis Andriessen’s latest opera, La Commedia at Carnegie Hall. I was lucky enough to make it up to New York for…

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NYPO’s Contact! at Symphony Space

April 21, 2010 Christian Carey

The New York Philharmonic has made significant strides to renew its commitment to contemporary classical music this season. Curated by composer-in-residence Magnus Lindberg and conducted by music director Alan Gilbert,…

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Music inspired by World War II

April 19, 2010 Christian Hertzog

There are many compositions dealing with the horrors of World War II. Some of them, like Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, have little to do with the war–Penderecki…

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Sequenza21 Concert in Peru? ¿Por que no?

April 16, 2010 Jerry Bowles

Caught up with our old amigo Marco Antonio Mazzini on Skype the other night and discovered that he has been touring the U.S. with his Belgian group, Thelema Trio, promoting…

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Dillon’s baby comes home

April 6, 2010 Steve Layton

Fresh off its German premiere, composer and S21 blogger Lawrence Dillon‘s newest string quartet begins making its rounds of the U.S. this week, under the completely able fingers and bows…

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Happy Geburtstag Helmut!

March 29, 2010 Steve Layton

Helmut Lachenmann, 75 years old this year. How does the news strike us? If a composer in Europe, a better than 60%-70% chance that this is an important milestone. If…

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Composing and Listening Out Loud

March 26, 2010 Steve Layton

Saturday, March 27th at 7:30pm CDT, anyone in driving range of Birmingham, Alabama should be paying UAB’s Hulsey Recital Hall (950 13th Street South) a visit. Back last year, Meet…