My 52 Minutes of Fame
My accidental disk jockey gig on WBGO is scheduled for this Thursday at 2 pm. Live and in full color on the Internets at wbgo.org Here’s my playlist: Back Water…
New Albion at Bard
Bard SummerScape is presenting the New Albion Festival, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Foster Reed’s record label known as the “voice of West Coast new music,” at the Spiegeltent…
Musical Postcards From Max Richter
Trendy indie composer/performer Max Richter’s fourth album, 24 Postcards in Full Colour, won’t be released until September 23 on FatCat Records but thanks to enterprising PR person Amanda Ameer, Sequenza21…
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008)
Daniel Wakin at the NY Times reports on the passing of Norman Dello Joio at age 95. One of the first pieces of 20th Century choral music I sang was…
Angels in Illinois
Big Up to our friend and S21 blogger Lawrence Dillon who is one of three winners of the Ravinia Festival of Highland Park, Illinois’ first composer competition. The competition asked…
Harris Wulfson (1974-2008)
Harris passed away this week. He and I were in the PhD Composition program at CUNY, admitted the same year–though he decided to go to CalArts first. I scarcely knew…
All I Hear is Radio Ga Ga
Some well-to-do friends of mine purchased at a charity auction recently a chance to play disk jockey for an hour on WBGO in Newark which is, I believe, the most…
Miller Time
Hey, the new Miller Theater schedule is out. Some great-looking programs, including the New York premiere of Iannis Xenakis’s only opera, Oresteia. Composer Portraits are: Peter Lieberson, Oliver Messiaen (centennial…
Stravinsky Remixed
Our friends at the Metropolis Ensemble will perform a new take on Stravinsky‘s The Rite of Spring called The Rite: Remixed tonight at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Composers Ryan Francis,…
What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?
Got four and a half minutes for a meditation on life, religion, and nature? Our friends at Aguava New Music Studio have a new video by Susanne Schwibs, music by…