Category: Contemporary Classical

I wouldn’t have gone but if I had gone I wouldn’t whine about it later from the safety of my keypad.

…The Seattle Times‘ forever-esconced-but-barely-there music crtic, Melinda Bargreen (reviewing Thursday’s Seattle Symphony concert): When a conductor picks up a microphone to address the audience about the music they’re going to…

I’ll start: Fog Tropes – Ingram Marshall When Crows Gather – Lewis Spratlan

Remember Galen Brown’s piece “Waiting in the Tall Grass” which was premiered by Relâche last November?  Sure, you do.  Here it is in two parts on YouTube: [youtube]ReYbo4hByHg[/youtube] [youtube]CDWvhfBT9nI&feature=user[/youtube]  

The composer Jorge Liderman died Sunday morning after reportedly jumping in front of an oncoming BART train in the Berkeley, CA area. I had initially heard of him after coming across…

Amazingly enough, there’s still some people who have never been to New York City…and until yesterday, I could count myself as a member of that group. This weekend, however, I…

DAY It’s been said (probably by Robert Craft) that Stravinsky was the last composer whose work could survive a one man recital. At yesterday’s performance of the complete Sequenzas at…

Quick–whodunnit? Classical music; in the twentieth century; with the… twelve-tone row?  PhD?  Rock music? New York Phil? Wrong!!! (The corpse he’s mistaking for classical music is in fact his idea…

Hello Jerry Bowles and Sequenza21, I am writing from the office of Bang on a Can in Brooklyn. We are currently beginning a search for a new cellist to be…

UBUWEB is playing online host to an excellent hour-long WDR documentary on Mauricio Kagel. Of course it’s in German, but don’t let your lack of the lingo stop you from clicking over there…