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…
Kagel Über (and Ubu) Alles
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…
The San Juan Island Book Club
A meeting of the San Juan Island Book Club, pictured here, convened immediately upon my return from Seattle, where Alex Ross and Kyle Gann had curated a truly remarkable new…
ICO (formerly VIM:TRIBECA) Concert Series Disaster
Last year, many of us saw a posting regarding the VIM:Tribeca concert series. The organizers, Judd Greenstein and Kimball Gallagher, wanted to put on concert series of mostly new works;…
Calling all New Jersey Composition Students – Pictures 2008
Sunset at Montclair by George Inness New Jersey Arts Collective and the Montclair Art Museum are sponsoring Pictures 2008, a composition competition for high school and college students residing or…
One Billion People of Earth
Check out this video of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology, apparently leaked from the Scientology organization (they got it pulled from YouTube, but copies are kicking around the internet). The…
The Last Word in Listening
Last.fm is a social-network/music site out of London, whose visitors play a huge part in creating their vast database on musicians, their recordings, their popularity, and music of related interest.…