Category: Contemporary Classical

Alas, no composers among the MacArthur geniuses named today but Dawn Upshaw, who probably makes a decent living at this singing and recording business, will be getting a check for…

Should that be Dargel in briefs?

During the summer the music programming stays pretty much with the established and conventional, if not with the outright light and popular.  I missed about the only performance of contemporary…

“Music should either touch your soul or make you dance,” Michael Abels says, and though he admits there is a lot of music out there that doesn’t do either, those should…

I’ve been paying some bills for the past couple for the past couple of days and haven’t had a chance to update much.  While I’m still catching up, why don’t we do a…

Last week I went to Corey Dargel’s new postmodern cabaret show “Removable Parts,” and it was excellent.  I call it “postmodern cabaret” because I’m not sure what else to call…

Review in yesterday’s NYT of a novel called The Spanish Bow by a Chicago-born, Alaska-domiciled writer with the unlikely name of Andromeda Romano-Law.  The teaser is this:  “In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan…

The season is underway in New York and, as usual, there are a number of promising looking performances coming up.  Here are a few things to look for: Margaret Garner,…

Our regular listen to and look at living, breathing composers and performers that you may not know yet, but I know you should… And can, right here and now, with…

When he went to work for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center a few years ago, Ronen Givony knew very little about classical music. Not himself a musician, but…