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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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How Per Norgard tricked Gyorgy Ligeti into discovering Music of the Spheres by Rued Langgaard

November 15, 2011 Christian Hertzog

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Third Coast Credo

November 1, 2011 Christian Carey

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Happy Independence Day from Charles and Greta

July 4, 2011 Christian Carey

My parents-in-law have a long tradition of enthusiastic photography. Greta the golden retriever is less than a year old, but she’s already an accomplished model. To those readers in the…

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It’s a Short Six Hours

June 11, 2011 Christian Carey

Tomorrow from 2-8 PM in Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, FLUX Quartet plays Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2. The concert is the last event in American Sublime, a two week long…

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Reich on Reich

April 4, 2011 Christian Carey

Steve Reich turns 75 this coming October, and the celebrations have already begun. Later this month is a concert at Carnegie Hall on April 30th. It features the Kronos Quartet…

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Interview with composer Tom Myron

February 1, 2011 Chris Becker

The job requirements of a working composer are elusive, perhaps especially for composition students enrolled in University degree programs that fail to provide graduates with the interpersonal and business skills…

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Cyberbullying and Britten

October 2, 2010 Christian Carey

When I planned to teach a course at Westminster Choir College about Benjamin Britten’s vocal music in the Fall, I knew that gender/sexuality studies would play a role in our…

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Bright Sheng and Anthony Newman premieres at La Jolla Summerfest

August 12, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Older readers may recall with fondness Edgar Bergen, a very popular American entertainer who poured his comic routines through ventriloquist dummies named Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Edgar so loved…