What to Wear in LA
Michael Gordon’s new post-rock opera What To Wear opens tonight at the Redcat Theater in downtown LA. Richard Foreman wrote the libretto and directs the stage production. According to our…
News Flash: Zorn is a Genius
John Zorn is officially a genuis. The 53-year-old composer, improviser, saxophonist, provocateur, and ardent promoter of experimental music through his Tzadik recording label, was one of 25 new MacArthur Fellows…
NWEAMO Festival Comes to Soho October 6-7
Some exciting news via e-mail today from our old virtual pal Joseph Waters, godfather of NWEAMO (the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization). The NWEAMO Festival is coming to New York…
A WTF Moment From Mark Swed
I like Mark Swed’s writing a lot and find I normally agree with his tastes but I can’t make sense out of his review of the Carl Orff/Jefferson Friedman concert…
Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
Reader Bill Westfall passes along this link to a story about a new research study that reports more than one quarter of classical music fans use cannabis and 12.3 per…
Flash: Cio-Cio San Now Working in Times Square
If there were ever any doubt that Peter Gelb, the new director of the Metropolitan Opera, had big plans to turn the venerable company into a glitzier, more populist experience,…
Let’s Hear it for Jeff Harrington
Daniel Wolf, who hangs around these parts from time to time, has written a terrific piece about our resident tech adviser Jeff Harrington who, in addition to knowing how to…
Welcome to Sequenza21 3.0
Okay, we’re back and ready to ramble. What we have here now is a web site that looks great but you don’t want to look in the closets. The original…
On the Transmigration of Souls
What we know to be not possible, Though time after time foretold By wild hermits, by shaman and sybil Gibbering in their trances, Or revealed to a child in some…
About the New Look
Here’s a piece of advice. Never say to yourself on a Saturday morning, well, I think I’m just going to completely re-do the old web site over the weekend. Dumb…