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Cage and Beyond

October 26, 2012 George Grella

Just before intermission of the opening concert of the Beyond Cage Festival on October 22, I pulled out my iPhone to see if the Giants were beating the Cardinals for…

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Kaminsky Comments

August 31, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Updated : 9/6/12 with added thoughts from Laura Kaminsky. Every so often we have a conversation that changes us for the better. Sometimes, we have this type of conversation with…

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Gloria Cheng Plays John Cage in Pasadena

August 25, 2012 Paul Muller

The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage was celebrated in Pasadena, California at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center with a concert by Gloria Cheng titled Two Sides…

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The Unanswered Petition (Save Ives’s House!)

August 7, 2012 Christian Carey

Way back in September, Charles Ives scholar Jan Swafford reported in Slate that the Ives home in Redding, Connecticut, built by the composer and for many years maintained by his…

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A Cowboy Hangs Up His Spurs

July 24, 2012 Christian Carey

On July 22nd via his PostClassic blog, Kyle Gann published a post titled “One Less Critic,” more or less announcing his retirement from music criticism after was able to successfully…

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Lend Your Voice to Q2 Music

July 18, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Sometimes, classical music gets a bad rap. To be perfectly honest, there is a chunk of the population that finds it to be synonymous with any number of derogatory terms:…

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Sixty Postwar Pieces to Study

March 20, 2012 Christian Carey

Sixty Postwar Pieces to Study Recently, a couple of the undergraduate composers in the program at Westminster Choir College asked me for lists of postwar pieces to study. Given the…

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John Cage events in Los Angeles

February 25, 2012 Christian Hertzog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y We had just seen John Cage recite his mesostic/theater work, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet. My composition teacher, a tenured faculty member who had won many…

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“Cold Shivers Seem Spine”: Are These Sketches of Sibelius’s Eighth Symphony?

November 16, 2011 Christian Hertzog

Big news from Finland: Sketches of what appear to be Sibelius’s Eighth Symphony (long thought destroyed by Sibelius) have emerged. Here’s a clunky Google translation of the Finnish web site…

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