Category: Contemporary Classical

This Ojai Music Festival season was one of those to remember. When the low point is a screening of a Chaplin film with live orchestra, that means that the high…

Watch this video and tell me you don’t think that this will fundamentally change music, pretty much all genres, the day after it comes out (September). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3SsYQrgcyA[/youtube] http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/06/moog-unveils-ba.html

Charles Wuorinen, who turns seventy today, has been commissioned by New York City Opera to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain. It is scheduled to…

Among the cats who know great charts, the names Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan are magic.  Eddie exited a long time ago; Bill, just last week.  [youtube]87_iN2xW6Ks[/youtube] 

Saturday afternoon, already. We’re half-way through this year’s Ojai Music Festival, and I need some time-shifter to slow things down. Today’s mid-day concert was superb. Dawn Upshaw, but that’s redundant.…

I move that the role of Al Gore be essayed by the entire La Scala Opera Chorus!  Wait . . . no:  Anna Netrebko–who wouldn’t drive a Prius for her? . .…

I always walk around with a guilty conscience. My inbox gets loaded all the time with press releases and so forth, and I’m a bit stingy about passing on the…

The Paul Bailey Ensemble is a self-described “alternative / classical garage band” busy these last few years in and around Los Angeles. Though Bailey (The bulky but sharp-looking fella in the…

The last concert of the season for the Phil closed with roars of applause and approval for Esa-Pekka Salonen‘s Piano Concerto, given its premiere last year by the New York…

Bang on a Can NYC Marathon May 31 – June 1, 2008 6:00pm World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York, NY This year’s Marathon will take place at the World…