Happy 85th Birthday Gunther Schuller!
Who says Barber cornered the market on Adagios?
NYPO plays Grisey and Lindberg on this week’s CONTACT!
The New York Philharmonic kicks off its second season of the new music series CONTACT! this Friday and Saturday at Symphony Space and the Met Museum (tickets/details here). The theme…
Strata gets Metaclassical
Strata – a trio consisting of pianist Audrey Andrist, clarinetist Nathan Williams, and violinist/violist James Stern – has just started a new commissioning project. Abetted by a grant from the…
Introducing Meet the Composer Studio
Meet the Composer’s latest venture, MTC Studio, will be unveiled on Monday at an event at the 92nd Street Y (Tribeca). It features members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and…
Kronos remembers Gorecki
Some of Henryk Gorecki’s closest collaborators were the members of the Kronos Quartet. He composed all three of his string quartets for Kronos. As it happens, when the composer passed…
RIP Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010)
Polish composer Henryk Gorecki died today at the age of 76. Gorecki was one of Poland’s most prominent musical figures and, along with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and Englishman John…
Newspeak’s sweet light crude
The new indie classical kids on the block, Newspeak, have just released their first video. David T. Little’s composition sweet light crude, featuring soprano Mellissa Hughes in fine voice and…
If Music be the Food of sustainability
Tonight at Merkin Hall, the Mirror Visions Ensemble is presenting Concert à la carte. Its first half features food-themed works by American composers, ranging from art songs by Samuel Barber,…
ONCE (again)
Although Ann Arbor’s ONCE. MORE. festival, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ONCE Group composers, does not end until tonight, the events with the surviving founders of the groundbreaking concert…
Conversations about the inner life of creativity
Innerviews: Music Without Borders (Extraordinary Conversations with Extraordinary Musicians) by Anil Prasad Abstract Logix Books; 315 pages, Published 2010 Anil Prasad has covered music on the internet longer than practically…