We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat
Congratulations are in order to Joan Tower and our friends at Naxos for nearly running the table on the classical music goodies in last night’s Grammy love fest. Tower’s Made…
Leon the Wimp
I wouldn’t have gone but if I had gone I wouldn’t whine about it later from the safety of my keypad.
One Thing I don’t Miss about Seattle…
…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…
Let’s Make a List
I’ll start: Fog Tropes – Ingram Marshall When Crows Gather – Lewis Spratlan
Galen Does YouTube
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: ReYbo4hByHg CDWvhfBT9nI&feature=user
jorge liderman, 1957-2008
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…
First Time in the Big City
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…
A Day and a Night of Berio
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…
Saturday Miscellany
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…
Cellist Wanted
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…