Category: Contemporary Classical

Surprisingly good news for all those who still harbor hopes of major orchestras as dynamic, living institutions: the New York Philharmonic has just announced that Alan Gilbert will be its…

Over the past couple of years, ISSUE Project Room has become one of the hot spots for contemporary music in the city and earned a well-deserved reputation for presenting new and…

Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries program is a  special one this week involving, as it does, several members of the S21 community.  Marvin’s doing the first radio broadcast of OgreOgress’s world premiere recording of Alan Hovhaness’s Janabar, a 37-minute…

Blogging as a substitute for productive behavior has just turned 10 years old, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.  To which we say a hearty “Mazeltov” and welcome into the…

Jerry Hadley has apparently attempted suicide.

I wasn’t able to make the premiere screening on July 4 but I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about a new documentary film called The End of New Music,…

ANALOG arts ensemble has just announced its instant composition contest, Iron Composer Omaha. Five finalists will be selected to compete. At noon on September 11, we’ll unveil the instrumentation that…

I’ve just finished a new piece called Elevator Music, which is intended to be performed by two people in an elevator or a similar enclosed, public space.  It consists of…

Bernard Holland has a funny piece in today’s Times about setting out to listen to Marc-André Dalvavie’s new CD and getting mugged instead by an roving gang of French musical poseurs.  A couple of choice bon…

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, since…