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…
John Kreckler, RIP
I was saddened to learn today that John Kreckler passed away earlier this week. John was probably best known to composers, performers, and new music audiences as the co-director of…
The 60 Minute Challenge
Composer Nolan Stoltz and New Music Hartford are running an interesting project in early August, which they are calling 60/60: At 3:00 PM (EDT) on August 2nd, instrumentation for a…
Bang Those Canners!
Seriously nasty review of the Bang on a Can Marathon over on the Huffington Post (HuffPo, to its friends) by somebody I don’t know named Jan Herman. The review is…
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…
Matthew Sperry: Gone but Never Forgotten
On June 5, 2003, SF Bay Area musician Matthew Sperry was killed by an inattentive driver while riding his bicycle to work. Grieving friends in the Bay Area music community…
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…
If it’s June…it must be Buffalo
Since Christian Carey’s wonderful post on June in Buffalo sounded so enticing, I figured it was time I see what all the hubbub was about. From getting there just in…
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…
Great Noise Ensemble at the Kennedy Center – tonight!!!
Good gravy, how could I have forgotten to post this…Armando Bayolo’s Great Noise Ensemble will be performing their Kennedy Center debut TONIGHT with the Congressional Chorus at 7:30 pm in…