SLN is pleased to welcome awesome violinist Lisa Liu as a guest blogger. Last month, Mobtown Modern was fortunate to have Lisa play on our final concert of the season. But she almost didn’t make it—something she was quick to attribute to ‘the curse of Nico Muhly.’ I’ll let her explain. . .
Sitting on […]
Wish you knew more about Thomas Adès? Check out Molly’s wonderful profile of him in today’s Washington Post.
There’s a little Q&A with composer William Bolcom in today’s Wall Street Journal, which contains this exchange about one of his upcoming works:
WSJ: You’ve written eight symphonies. Do you have a ninth in the works?
Bolcom: The ninth will be for a concert band, which I will deliver by September. To get an orchestra to spend […]
Stockhausen’s passing last week was well documented by the new (and not so) music community. I’ve yet to chime in, but here goes. Honestly, I was scared of Stockhausen. My fear wasn’t based on any personal experience with him—I never met him—but came from when I was learning his composition In Freundschaft.
All the reading I’d […]
Counterstream Radio, the adventurous new music radio station from the American Music Center, is airing a Spotlight Session with one of my all-time favorite composers and collaborators, Michael Djupstrom. Give thanks for the broadcast on November 22 at 9 p.m., but don’t worry if you miss it—there’ll be leftovers on November 25 at 3 p.m. […]
Reminiscing about last year’s SPARK Fesitval a couple of posts ago reminded me about the experience of meeting Alvin Lucier, who was the event’s feautred guest composer. On my third concert of the festival—actually a joint recital with violinist Maja Cerar—I performed Lucier’s Spira Mirabilis for bass sustaining instrument (a.k.a. baritone saxophone) and amplified electric […]
Headline sound a little strange? Well, it seems almost impossible to comprehend that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has never programmed a work by Philip Glass. One really wonders about that hole in the BSO’s rep list especially because of the way Baltimore (and one very esteemed institution in Baltimore) habitually boasts the fact that Mr. […]
After 30 years of study, Martin Jarvis, a professor at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, has concluded that some of J. S. Bach’s most famous works, including his Six Cello Suites, were not written by Bach, but by his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He points to the fact that the only complete manuscript […]
Ken Ueno’s one of my favorite composers and a good friend. Here are a couple quotes from an interview he gave recently:
“There isn’t as much potential for financial rewards [in classical music] as in pop music. But, there is the potential satisfaction that one had lived an uncompromising life of art in having created the […]
Anne Midgette’s got a great profile of composer James Tenney, whom she refers to as the “Zeilg” of American contemporary music, in today’s New York Times. Tenney will be honored with concerts celebrating his 70th birthday today at The Project Room and May 11 at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria. Also check out […]