Steve’s click picks #29
Our regular (well, semi-regular, at least until our dust has settled in Houston) listen to and look at living, breathing composers and performers that you may not know yet, but…
If I Swallow Anything Evil, Put Your Finger Down My Throat
Not quite sure what to make of this, but the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London has bought Opus Arte, a leading for-profit maker and producer of performance…
David Does Harvard
Attention Boston (and NY) shoppers! The world-premiere run of David Salvage’s String Quartet No. 2 is at hand. The Arcturus Chamber Ensemble will do the honors, starting this Friday, June…
The Hybrid: The Two Worlds of Asha Srinivasan
“But he, Siddhartha, where did he belong? Whose life would he share? Whose language would he speak?” These words of Hermann Hesse depict Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) at a pivotal point…
The iGasm ‘Listener’ – A Potential Avant Garde Music Audience?
With news that Apple is suing the manufacturers of the iGasm it occurred to me last night that this perhaps was a possible new venue for contemporary music. I brought…
Born in the U.S.A.
Composers, painters, writers, the whole motley lot–have always depended upon the kindness of strangers. Timely financial interventions of the Lorenzo de’ Medici here, the Nadezda von Meck there, the Paul…
NEA Funding Boost?
According to the American Symphony Orchestra League, which has been coordinating an advocacy campaign on the subject, the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee in the House of Representatives passed yesterday a $35…
The Body of your Dreams: Profiling Jacob ter Veldhuis
Jacob ter Veldhuis might be the best composer you’ve never heard of. Let me explain. Start with his 1999 piece “Heartbreakers,” which takes recordings of American daytime television talk shows…
Ranking the Music Blogs
Scott Spiegelberg of Musical Perceptions is a very brave man who obviously doesn’t have enough abuse going on in his life. (By the way, we should have been number four,…