Jennifer Higdon’s ‘Cold Mountain’ Debuts Tonight in Santa Fe
(via Amanda Ameer) Jennifer Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, premieres at The Santa Fe Opera on August 1, 2015 and runs until August 24. The August 24 performance was added…
‘Man on a Wire’ in Pasadena
Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Boston Court, People Inside Electronics presented Man on a Wire, a concert of new music featuring pianist Aron Kallay. A capacity crowd filled the Branson…
Synchromy Concert in Pasadena
Friday night July 17 and Boston Court in Pasadena was the venue for a concert titled Music From Text presented by Synchromy, the Los Angeles-based composers collective. Brightwork newmusic was…
Contemplating Messiaen at the piano: Matthew McCright
At the risk of sounding like an Internet meme, one does not simply perform Olivier Messiaen. A performer must take certain risks, and prepare for the very real possibility that…
A Small Encounter with Gunther Schuller
It used to be that you could pick up the phone and call someone, and they would answer. And so it was perhaps a decade ago that I called Gunther…
ICE at Ojai Music Festival
The International Contemporary Ensemble – ICE – was one of the featured groups performing at the 69th Ojai Music Festival. On Friday, June 12, 2013 ICE presented a varied concert…
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Ojai Music Festival – Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams
The 69th annual Ojai Music Festival featured the West Coast premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World by John Luther Adams, staged outdoors in Libby Park as a free…
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The Changing Same: Numinous New Music from Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.
If you’re a fan of new music, be it “indie-classical” or whatever it’s being labeled this week, then you must check out the music of composer and conductor Joseph C.…
Back Home/Kinan Azmeh and Co At Subculture NYC
We like to think that chamber music is an acquired taste but what is chamber music but music played in a room by a few people for a few people…
Reinier van Houdt in Los Angeles
The Dog Star 11 series of new music concerts continued on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at The Wild Beast performance space on the campus of Cal Arts. Reinier van Houdt,…