Last Night in L.A.: Monday Evening Concerts Reborn
A sold-out REDCAT held a brilliant concert to celebrate the re-birth of our Monday Evening Concerts and to honor the late Dorrance Stalvey, the man who directed the concerts for…
Skeptical Spectralist
Sometime, not too long ago, I seem to remember a discussion of the definition of spectral music running in the comment section. The latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine includes…
Making a List, Checking it Twice
It’s the time of year again when everybody makes “best of” lists. So what’s yours? CDs? Concerts? Meals? Books? The concert of the year for me, of course, was the…
Who Says You Can’t Dance to Morton Feldman?
ONP6HtxPN1Y OgreOgress artist Debora Petrina. Hat tip to Glenn Freeman.
Steve’s click picks #10
Our weekly listen 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 they’re…
The Bang On A Can All Stars at Zankel Hall
December 5, 2006 — One of the great things about the internet is that several of the pieces on this concert were available for preview on the Bang On A…
Last Night in L.A.: Too Many Talents?
Tuesday night Thomas Ades was the guest pianist, filling Leonard Stein’s slot, in the Piano Spheres concert at Zipper Hall of the Colburn School. This brought out the largest audience…
Come on, you know you care, a little bit…
It’s that time of the year again, folks, when composers around the world turn their attention to Los Angeles, with bated breath, waiting to hear who is, in fact, the…
Sir Norman’s Chapel
Pliable, our reliable friend across the pond, informs us that toute New York is aflame about a new 30-story Norman Foster edifice to be built on Madison Avenue. We must…