Category: Contemporary Classical

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…

Sebastian Currier has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Static,” a six-movement piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. Currier, who teaches at Columbia…

Any musical work which has a long. complex, and– dare I say it? –troubled history — can’t help but raise a red flag.  Is the artist wrestling with something alive…

Let’s go to the old mailbag and see what’s happening in the exciting world of new music.  Ah, here’s something.  Our friends at the American Music Center are launching Counterstream…

Props to our amigo Tom Steenland who has been producing great avant-garde recordings on his Starkland label from Boulder for many years now.  It isn’t every day that a CD…

Beth Anderson is hosting Women’s Work 2007, a series of three Wednesday concerts in March at  Greenwich House Arts.  The dates are March 14, 21 and 28 and the venue is…

Based mainly on my accidental success in building such a lively, tight knit and fun little community here, I am now getting a few paying gigs from people who want…

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…

Columbia University’s School of the Arts has given John Zorn the William Schuman Award, a major recognition given periodically over the past twenty-five years.      Named for its first recipient…

Out my (Seattle) way, local composer and Seattle Weekly columnist Gavin Borchert this week offered up something titled “Small Apologies“. A few excerpts: Not that I have anything against Tony…