The last concert I attended that involved one of the great minimalist composers was a concert over the summer at the Dream House–a three hour long close encounter (small, hot and sweaty room) with La Monte Young and crew. While I enjoyed the music, I felt that I had my fill of hot and sweaty […]
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Terry Riley, Bang On A Can All-Stars @ Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
November 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Bang on a Can, Downtown, Minimalism, New York
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Interview with Terry Riley
November 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Bang on a Can, Chamber Music, Composers, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Downtown, Just Intonation
Thursday morning I talked with composer Terry Riley, who is in New York this week to collaborate with the Bang on a Can All-Stars in the US premiere of his work Autodreamographical Tales at Le Poisson Rouge on 8 November.
Riley is famous for being one of the “Big Four” of American minimalist composers (the others: […]
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Watch Out for David Lang
October 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Bang on a Can, Chamber Music, Composers, Downtown, Minimalism, Music Events, New York
David Lang, who you will recall won this year’s Pulitzer with his piece The Little Match Girl Passion, will be submitting himself to the hard-hitting S21 interview next week. I’ll be asking him what he plans to do about the financial meltdown, the war in Iraq, and whether he stands by his selection of Sarah […]
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New Haven, Before and After One Arrives
August 31st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Bang on a Can, Classical Music, Composers, Contemporary Classical
Big Ups to David Lang and Christopher Theofanidis who have just been appointed to the faculty of the Yale School of Music. They will teach graduate students in the school’s composition program as well as teach courses and participate in the performances of their works. Both earned masters and DMA degrees from the Yale School […]
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A Scream Grows in Brooklyn
April 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Bang on a Can, Classical Music, Composers, Contemporary Classical, Music Events
It seems somehow fitting after a week of inexplicable madness that Julia Wolfe’s My Beautiful Scream will get its New York premiere tomorrow night when the Kronos Quartet joins the Brooklyn Philharmonic for a concert called Kronos+Cosmos.
Wolfe describes My Beautiful Scream as a kind of non-concerto for string quartet. The work is a gradual unfolding and unraveling of a […]
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13 Ways to Listen to Post-Ugly Music
March 7th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Bang on a Can, Classical Music, Composers, Contemporary Classical, New York
Let’s go to the old mailbag and see what’s happening in the exciting world of new music. Ah, here’s something. Our friends at the American Music Center are launching Counterstream Radio, a showcase for new music by U.S. composers, on March 16 at 3 p.m. EST. To mark the official station launch, Counterstream Radio will broadcast […]
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The Bang On A Can All Stars at Zankel Hall
December 8th, 2006 · No Comments · Bang on a Can, Classical Music, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Experimental Music, Music Events
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 Can website, and in fact you can still hear those previews to get a flavor of what I’m talking about. New music concerts are so […]
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