Stop Presses! Steve Reich Wins Pulitzer Prize
Steve Reich has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Double Sextet. Frank J. Oteri has details here. To which I say: it’s about damned time. UPDATE: NPR’s…
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Apropos this Wednesday’s Michael Gordon Trance performance mentioned just a few posts previously: Besides the pre-concert talk and videotaping, we’ve got a bit more fun for you all… Along with the…
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My Ears Are Open. This week on the podcast: Alex Lipowski
It’s hard to imagine a percussionist that you would want to perform your music more than Alex Lipowski. Alex has a passion for the new, the challenging and the unusual and I…
Trance Talking
Michael Gordon‘s huge and hugely wonderful, 50+ minute riff- and throb-fest Trance, composed in 1995, is being dusted off for what promises to be a memorable performance by the ensemble Signal,…
NMC’s Twentieth Anniversary present: A Boxed Set of Songs
English imprint NMC is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a special 4-disc CD boxed set. NMC Songbook features vocal music by a number of the UK’s finest and most…
Desert Island Discoing With David Lang, Living Lushly, and Andre’s 80th
Things have been pretty quiet over at the S21 Naxos blog for awhile but there is a terrific post up now by Collin Rae, Naxos of America’s Marketing and Special…
My Ears Are Open. This week: Evan Ziporyn
First, a quick introduction and thank you are in order. My name is James Holt and I am a composer living in New York. I started a podcast where I…
NJPE Loses its Pulse
As Anthony Cornicello reported on Saturday, William Paterson University of New Jersey is letting Peter Jarvis go from their faculty. Sequenza 21 last reported about Jarvis just weeks ago, announcing…
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Interpretations Season #20: Artist Blog #8 — Teresa McCollough
Interpretations continues its twentieth season of provocative programming in New York City. Founded and curated by baritone Thomas Buckner in 1989, Interpretations focuses on the relationship between contemporary composers from…
Poul Ruders 60th Birthday Concert and Celebration
Poul Ruders and David Starobin Thursday, March 26, 2009, at 7:30 pm Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue at 38th Street Scandinavia House and Bridge Records are hosting a birthday concert…