A belated response to David Byrne
I’m happy to be returning to posting here at Sequenza21. It has been a while. Recently, a quote from David Byrne was brought to my attention by Joe Benzola in…
Vijay Iyer–The Most Happy Fellow
Vijay Iyer and the Brentano Quartet in a live performance of sections from Mutations at Greene Space Over the past two decades, Vijay Iyer has recorded some 18 albums of…
FCM on Monday
On Monday, July 21st at 8 PM, the last concert of Tanglewood’s 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music is a well-stocked program of orchestral works. The centerpiece is Roger Sessions’s Concerto…
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2014 Ojai Music Festival – The Classical Style
The 2014 Ojai Music Festival opened on Thursday June 12 to begin 4 days packed with informative talks, movie screenings, parties and concerts. The Festival’s Music Director this year is…
Dogstar 10: Experimental Music Concert Series in Los Angeles
The annual Dogstar Orchestra concert series of experimental music has been going in various locations in and around Los Angeles since May 30. The venue on June 10 was the…
Some Memories of Lee
Like everybody else, I was stunned to hear that Lee Hyla had died. I first met Lee in the spring of 1973; I was a senior at New England Conservatory…
Los Angeles Composers Collective Concert in Chinatown
On Sunday, May 25, 2014 the Los Angeles Composers Collective presented New Strings a concert that featured new works by nine different composers and performed by the Fiato Quartet. The…
About Irving Fine, Twelve-Tone Music, and BMOP’s A Fine Centennial
Irving Fine was a Boston boy through and through. Born on December 3, 1914, in East Boston to Latvian Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Winthrop and went to Harvard.…
Electroacoustic Concert in Santa Monica
The City of Santa Monica was the scene Friday, May 2, 2014 of HEAR NOW Goes Electroacoustic, the first in a series of three consecutive concerts featuring music by contemporary…
The Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet’s 2014 Composition Competition
Hey composers! Dan Graser, the soprano saxophonist of the award-winning Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet, asked me to help announce the group’s 2014 Composition Competition. This looks like a very exciting…