Michael Brecker (1949-2007)
Mark Turner said it best, as reported by Do the Math: Fuck those motherfuckers who don’t give it up for Michael Brecker. GRFMG5C2PPA
Steve’s click picks #12
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…
If Art Happens in a Forest, and There’s Nobody Around to Hear it, is it Still Art?
It seems that conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has created a cell-phone ringtone based on John Cage’s 4’33” called My Cage (Silence for Cellphone), which is exactly what it sounds like:…
Last Night in L.A.: 25 Years for the New Music Group
There hasn’t been much contemporary music in Los Angeles over the past month. (Does music over the holidays have to be so traditional? Isn’t there much festive contemporary music?) But…
When in the Bowery…
Because I find myself suddenly and inexplicably old I will not be attending the great two-band, no waiting show at the Bowery Poetry Club this Sunday night, featuring Industrial Jazz…
Pare & Virgil
For those of you who were insufficiently cheered by Florida’s decisive surge over the Ohio State football factory, here’s something that should help. Our friends at Naxos will release on…
Gas Attack Monday (Local Joke)
Well, I see Chamber Music America is having its annual conference in the Center of the Universe this week, beginning on Thursday. I wasn’t invited this year. Last year, Alex…
‘Neath the Shade of the Old Walnut Tree
Back in July, nine students associated with AAIR, the independent radio station of London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, spent several days recording natural and man-made sounds to create an…
Sex With a “Z”
Mark Swed wrangled himself a trip to Budapest and came back with a brilliant piece on the world that shaped György Kurtág.
Musical Mashup or Composers Say the Darndest Things
From the CBC: Toronto composer James Rolfe has won the $7,500 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his contemporary work raW, the Canada Council for the Arts announced…