Category: Contemporary Classical

On September 15, 2001 Kalvos & Damian put out a call for pieces composed in reflection of the September 11th tragedies in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania, to be broadcast…

So that’s what’s wrong! (nudge-nudge, wink-wink…): Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8  Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of…

Fabulous review of Corey Dargel’s “darkly enchanting” theater piece about voluntary amputation, Removable Parts, in today’s New York Times.  A few years from now when Corey is permanently ensconsed in…

Okay, he stayed too long at the fair.  The idea of a 60-year-old, 400-pound man playing a starving artist failed to suspend disbelief.  The three tenors crap was execrable.  He probably inspired…

I’m delighted to announce that the fabulous Philadelphia based chamber ensemble Relâche will be premiering a new piece of mine during thier 07-08 concert season.  The piece is called “Waiting in…

Had a great time this morning on Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries radio show in Princeton and on the worldwide Internets.  I didn’t get a chance to play as much of…

Tomorrow would have been John Cage’s 95th birthday and to mark the occasion, Avant Media Performance is staging two multimedia realizations of works by Cage at the The Kitchen,  512 West…

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…

Marvin Rosen has a terrific Classical Discoveries program coming up next Wednesday.  His guests from 8:30 am until 11 will be the legendary Frank J. Oteri and…umm, me.  That assumes, of course, neither of us…

On August 16, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Brabbins, presented a late-night concert in honor of Sir John Drummond, former director of the Proms, who died last…