Resonant Bodies Festival – Sept. 5-7
Thursday night kicked off the Resonant Bodies Festival, a new 3-day parade of contemporary vocal music at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn. Each night features three young singers performing programs of…
Kinan Azmeh CityBand at Joe’s Pub
On September 3rd Kinan Azmeh CityBand returned to Joe’s Pub for the official release of their new album, Elastic City. The disc, a collection of passionate and virtuosic pieces in…
Attn: Record Labels, Music Groups and Other Music Advertising Shoppers
It’s September, the beginning of a new season, and time for our annual below half-price one-year Sequenza21 sponsorship/advertising sale. You can change your ad monthly if you like so basically,…
More Proms–White, Barry, Rzewski, Feldman, and Vir
The late night Prom presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov on the 19th of August is the kind that is guaranteed to draw an audience…
The Proms–Birtwistle, Gubaidulina, and more
On the Proms Chamber Music concert at Cadogan Hall on Monday, August 12, the women of the BBC Singers, along with flute player Philippa Davies and harpists Lucy Wakeford, Helen…
Concert Review: es geht weiter
The two-week long series of experimental music concerts in and around Los Angeles concluded Saturday, August 17 with es geht weiter a reading of nine compositions from members and friends…
More Proms–Turnage, Khan, Radio 6
Mark Anthony Turnage’s Frieze, performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, on August 11, and Nashit Kahn’s The Gate of the Moon, a concerto…
Music of Morton Feldman at Cal Arts
As part of a two-week long concert series of experimental music, For John Cage (1982) by Morton Feldman was heard at The Wild Beast performance space on the campus of…
Benjamin Opera the Closer at Tanglewood FCM
Tanglewood capped this year’s Festival of Contemporary Music with the U.S. premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin. After an initial brief hiccough (Mr Benjamin forgot his baton when he…
Violinist Isabelle Faust charms in Bartok
Violinist Isabelle Faust may have impressed you in Mozart last week at the Mostly Mozart Festival. She’ll be back in New York for Beethoven and more next January! Her latest…