“Wilson’s Ivory-bill”
Times have been good for my old composition teacher Lee Hyla. After many years on the composition faculty at Boston’s New England Conservatory, he has been hired into an endowed…
And the Winners (We Care About) Are
Classical Vocal Performance: “Rilke Songs,” Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Peter Serkin), track from Lieberson: Rilke Songs, The Six Realms, Horn Concerto. Classical Contemporary Composition: “Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain of Tears,” Osvaldo Golijov…
Hugo Wolf for the masses — what’s elitist about that?
Found on the Web: ” … I think the thing about classical music being a class-signifier is more to do with the fact that our society has lost the notion…
Louis W. Ballard, 1931-2007
Composer Ann Millikan sent us a note yesterday. Please let it be known: The great Quapaw-Cherokee composer Louis Ballard passed just around midnight at his home in Santa Fe, NM.…
These are the days, my friends.
Nice burble of activity going on here. Way to keep the fires burning, people. Robert Zimmerman’s learning how to take the heat over in the Composers Forum. Click on comments:…
Steve’s click picks #16
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…
my daughter thinks this is cool…
A YouTube video of Reich’s seminal Clapping Music accomplished via juggling (Thanks to MySpace friend James Combs for pointing me to it). Imagine what they could do with 4’33” orDrumming?
(“Achoo! I think I have a cold today. Better call in sick. And read Sequenza21!”)
Sometimes you don’t need to travel far to be where the hot stuff’s happening. We’ve got fresh action on a lot of fronts here at the ole dump. First stop:…
Oh boy, oh boy!
I had never given a moment’s thought to music written for television until 1997. I was watching The Late Show with the great Peter Takács when he suddenly – in…
Expressionism: Still Kickin’
Last time I wrote about the Argento Ensemble, they were taking their audience on a tour of contemporary French composers. On January 31st at Merkin, they extended their range a…