Category: Composers

Settle in for a little history… Juan Hidalgo (b.1927 –Spain), Walter Marchetti (b.1931 — Italy), and Zaj Most musicians who’ve fallen for John Cage and David Tudor, also know that offspring…

Tired of playing with yourself?  Well, you don’t have to anymore.  Take a look at e-jamming, a web site that lets you hook up with other musicians online to write,…

Our regular listen to and look at living, breathing composers and performers that you may not know yet, but I know you should… And can, right here and now, since…

Sebastian Currier has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Static,” a six-movement piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. Currier, who teaches at Columbia…

Any musical work which has a long. complex, and– dare I say it? –troubled history — can’t help but raise a red flag.  Is the artist wrestling with something alive…

Let’s go to the old mailbag and see what’s happening in the exciting world of new music.  Ah, here’s something.  Our friends at the American Music Center are launching Counterstream…

Our regular listen to and look at living, breathing composers and performers that you may not know yet, but I know you should… And can, right here and now, since…

Out my (Seattle) way, local composer and Seattle Weekly columnist Gavin Borchert this week offered up something titled “Small Apologies“. A few excerpts: Not that I have anything against Tony…

The Metropolitan Opera announced that its co-production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha with the English National Opera will debut next season on April 11, 2008.   The ENO is doing nine performances of Satyagraha…

Here’s a programming note to remember.  Performance Today will broadcast Tom Myron’s Violin Concerto #2 on Tuesday’s program.  The performance–by the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra–was recorded on 5/14/06 in Alexandria Virginia; Elisabeth…