(“Achoo! I think I have a cold today. Better call in sick. And read Sequenza21!”)
Sometimes you don’t need to travel far to be where the hot stuff’s happening. We’ve got fresh action on a lot of fronts here at the ole dump. First stop:…
Oh boy, oh boy!
I had never given a moment’s thought to music written for television until 1997. I was watching The Late Show with the great Peter Takács when he suddenly – in…
Expressionism: Still Kickin’
Last time I wrote about the Argento Ensemble, they were taking their audience on a tour of contemporary French composers. On January 31st at Merkin, they extended their range a…
Party Time!
An acquaintance of mine – a fellow student-composer – years ago once had the fortune to have an extended conversation with György Ligeti. Upon learning my friend was an aspiring…
Lost and Found
Ecce Cor Meum Paul McCartney Kate Royal, soprano London Voices; Boys of Magdalen College Choir, Oxford; Boys of King’s College Choir, Cambridge Colm Carey, organ Mark Law, piccolo trumpet Academy…
Zhou Long and Others
Courtesy of The Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, I was able to hear last Wednesday three compositions by the Chinese-American composer Zhou Long (b. 1953). Long’s music had…
Still want that Fulbright?
Michael Rose, composer and pianist who’s normally found teaching at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, has been on a Fulbright-sponsored stay at the Kerala Kalamandalam, a performing-arts school in south…
Opera for the PlayStation generation
The big news in London this weekend is a £1 million (almost $2m) tie-up between English National Opera and Sony PlayStation to put games consoles into the foyer of the…
Steve’s click picks #15
Our regular listen to and look at living, breathing composers and performers that you may not know yet, but I know you should… And can, right here and now, since…
Gian Carlo Menotti, 95
Gian Carlo Menotti died today at a hospital in Monaco. He was 95. In the days before television became a total waste of time, NBC commissioned him to write the…