Happy 101st Birthday Elliott!
Elliott Carter turns 101 today. By all accounts, he’s hale, hearty, and busily composing!
Christian Wolff and friends, S.E.M.
The S.E.M. Ensemble will open its 40th anniversary season with its annual Christmas concert at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City on Tuesday, December 15. SEM has performed a…
New works, Free tix!
This month kicks off the New York Philharmonic’s Contact! series. Concerts in December and April feature seven composers and seven premieres, played first at Symphony Space and then a day…
Traditions & Transmigrations
Does anyone remember the early August announcement that the American Composers Orchestra was going to begin a partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton to “Commission and Premiere New Music…
“Somebody handed me a hammer”
So recalls Felix Heltmann of then-West Berlin, in a comment over at the BBC, “and without question I just started pounding away at the Wall. I was so excited that…
November portraits
Miller Theatre at Columbia University is running a great little series of composer portrait concerts this month: Saturday, Nov. 7th, Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) is featured, with Chicago’s Fifth House Ensemble…
N.C. without the Y.
I’ve just been informed via press release, that our s21 blogging regular Lawrence Dillon is a “mid-career composer.” It’s nice to know that he’s only half-done making great music and…
Hey bidder bidder!
Like to own a piece of potential history? Or maybe just somebody to lug your bags around? Grab some fare or flair, from fluff to full, all to be had…
Who Interviewed Amanda Palmer?
Amanda Palmer (photo by Martin Foster) Amanda Palmer is a bona fide rock star. She first made her name as half of The Dresden Dolls, and has since struck out…
Lips apart, lips together
Two shout-outs for events that, if only they’d have gotten around to inventing teleportation by now, I’d certainly try to make: Tuesday evening (27 Oct.) in Princeton’s Taplin Auditorium vocalists…