Hilary Hahn’s enquiring mind wants to know
Hilary Hahn doesn’t need much introduction; as one of the leading violinists today, many of you have any number of her recordings or have been lucky enough to catch her…
I’m in a band…
Continuing a theme: earlier this week I mentioned a gig by composer Matt McBane’s “not-quite-neo-alt-rock-chamber-folk-etc” ensemble Build. The pattern continues this Sunday at The Stone in NYC (corner of 2nd…
Carterhead Heaven
S21 friend Peter Mueller passed along the good news that: The Library of Congress has completed digitization of another batch of the compositional sketches of Elliott Carter. These are now…
Is that a vocal score in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The 2009 Opera Vista Festival and competition just finished up down here in Houston. Line Tørnhøj of Aarhus, Denmark was voted by the audience as the winner with her opera…
Sloppy Seconds
I’m late getting to this but one of our regulars called my attention to an article in last Sunday’s New York Times about the League of Composers titled Modernists Commission…
“First, do no harm”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YD6uu7dJ7I Mauricio Kagel‘s 1984 “Der Eid des Hippokrates” (“The Hippocratic Oath”), for piano 3-hands. Kagel wrote: This aphoristic composition was inspired by the publication in January 1984, in a medical…
New Paths: An Hispanic Festival
New New Paths in Music presents An Hispanic Festival Elebash Recital Hall Graduate Center – CUNY New York On Friday June 5th, New Paths in Music presented a concert of…
Sonata for Piano and Dirt Bike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb50kHf7Tw0 Carles Santos has been a force on the Spanish “downtown” scene (taking musicians like Santos, Llorenç Barber and Maria de Alvear in opposition to the “uptown” likes of Cristobal…
Balliett House, San Antonio TX
Monday last week I headed over to San Antonio to hear a house concert hosted by composer and San Antonio Symphony bassist Doug Balliett. The program included two new pieces…
Force of Nature – Frederic Rzewski Solo Piano UC Davis
It’s sometimes said that composers are either German or French, and American vanguard one Frederic Rzewski, with his much vaunted admiration for Beethoven, is clearly on the German side. But…