Keys to the Future – Day 2
In the second concert of the Keys to the Future series, Tatjana Rankovich, organizer Joseph Rubenstein, and Lora Tchekoratova performed in a program rich in compelling melodic and textural content.…
Keys to the Future – Day 1 – Delicacies and Profundities
The opening concert for the Keys to the Future featured organizer Joseph Rubenstein, BOAC regular keyboardist Lisa Moore and Blair McMillen in a program practically devoid of common modernist influence.…
Reich, Reich, Reich
Don’t miss Alex Ross’ wonderful portrait of Steve Reich in the new New Yorker. Yes, the New Yorker. Robert Gable has a video link to the London Steve Reich Ensemble…
Keys to the Future Festival Coming Up Next Week
Season two of Keys to the Future, a festival of contemporary music for solo piano, takes place next week, November 7-9 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) at Greenwich House’s Renee Weiler Concert…
Steve’s click picks #5
Our weekly listen and look at composers and performers that you may not know yet, but should… And can, right here and now, since they’re nice enough to offer a…
Xantippe’s Rebuke
Leach_Xantippe_sRebuke_pg12[1].pdf From Sequenza21 regular Mary Jane Leach: Xantippe’s Rebuke, for oboe soloist and eight taped oboes, is an intense study in sound that tickles your ears. It will be performed…
Nail-Biting Time
The clock is ticking and things are pretty tense here in the old control room. The fate of the Republic hangs in the balance. I refer, of course, not just to…
A Happy (belated) Birthday to Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman An 80th Birthday Celebration Merkin Concert Hall Saturday, October 28, 2006 I am perpetually late with birthday greetings. This past Saturday, as my wife and I entered the…
Halloween Spooks Outside My Window
Anybody know who’s writing the Intermission: Impossible blog for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center? Clever writer. Check it out today for Fred Sherry’s Top 11 Approaching Newness picks. Who…
BETTER THAN SEX—results guaranteed!!!!
Got your attention, right? No, this is not spam. My piece objects for marimba, piano and electronic organ is going to be premiered at the Sequenza 21 concert on November…