Experimental Sound Practices Concert at Cal Arts
On Friday October 3, 2014 Cal Arts opened the WaveCave, a new experimental sound installation space and hosted a reunion concert by alumni on campus at the Roy O. Disney…
ETHEL Celebrates 10 Years of Grand Canyon Residency
For the past decade, the nationally acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has served as the Ensemble-in-Residence of the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). To date, ETHEL’s…
ensemble: Périphérie – Morris, MN, 9/23/14
(image source ensemble: Périphérie) A common theme in my reviews is that new music is what and where you make it. ensemble: Périphérie ascribes to the same philosophy. The group,…
Music of Pauline Oliveros in Los Angeles
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 the Southland Ensemble presented a concert of the music of Pauline Oliveros at Human Resources in the arts-friendly Chinatown district of downtown Los Angeles. The…
Some More New on the Proms
On August 27, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, in its first appearance at the Proms, included, along with Debussy’s La Mer and the Tschaikovsky Sixth Symphony, Šu,…
Birthdays and Commemoration at the Proms–Birtwistle, Davies, Rands, and others
The birthdays of Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, both of whom turn 80 in 2014, is one of the major focuses of this year’s Proms. Each has a complete…
Benedict Mason at the Proms
Not only is it hard to describe Benedict Mason’s Meld, which was given it’s first performance on the late night Prom given by the Aurora Orchestra and the choral group…
Inpire and Jane Manning and some Proms
For sixteen years now the BBC, as one of its many activities connected with the Proms, has run a program which it calls Inspire, comprising of a competition and several…
Peter Schulthorpe’s Earth Cry
A reminder of the muscular, haunting style of Peter Schulthorpe, who passed away a couple of days ago.