Locrian Chamber Players this Saturday at Riverside Church
Dear Friends, You are cordially invited to a concert of The Locrian Chamber Players this Saturday, August 23 at 8PM in the 10th Floor Performance Space of Riverside Church, 490…
More from the Proms–first performances of Berkeley, MacRae, and Hillborg
The Prom Concert on August 10, given by the BBC Symphony, conducted by Edward Gardner, included two first performances, both of them commissioned by the BBC for this season of…
Chen Yi’s Olympic Fire – More From the Proms
The BBC marked the beginning day of the Beijing Olympics by offering the first performance of Olympic Fire, commissioned for the occasion from Chen Yi. All of Chen’s music uses…
George Steel Leaves Miller for Dallas Opera
Here’s a big loss to the New York new music community. George Steel, who has made Miller Theatre at Columbia University an essential venue since taking over as executive director…
The Right Kind of Advertising, Part 2
Back in June, I wrote about how the Metropolitan Opera snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the marketing of Satyagraha–how when classical music organizations employ the right kind…
TO EASE THE PAIN OF LIVING: “Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts”
On the shelf next to the photograph of Tibetan lama Galen Rinpoche, next to the framed Dalai Lama picture, next to the family photographs and statuettes of violins and goddesses,…
The Truth and Nothing But
In this age of Dobbsian-fueled immigration hysteria, what could be more timely than an opera about a beautiful Mexican drug smuggler who kills her lover after he betrays her and,…
My First Prom–Prom 27, August 6
George Benjamin, at age 48, is one of the grand old men of British music. Considering a succession starting with Britten, and continuing with Oliver Knussen and Thomas Ades, and…
So, How Was I?
I had a great time playing disc jockey on WBGO this afternoon. The folks there were incredibly hospitable and it was fun to meet Michael Bourne (the other guy in…
The 2008 S21 Concert Program!!!
Thanks very much to everyone who submitted scores. All of us were very impressed by the overall quality of the submissions. The selected compositions in alphabetical order by composer are:…