tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95734932007-11-11T18:57:11.980-05:00Jerry BowlesBlogger986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-41868325741346148392007-11-11T18:52:00.000-05:002007-11-11T18:57:12.014-05:00

I never expected ever to be doing a piano recital, but... I am. on Sunday, November 18, 2007, at 8:00 pm In the Concert Hall of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University 855 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston I will be playing Charles Ives The Alcotts (from the Concord Sonata) Joshua Fineberg Til Human Voices Wake Us Rodney Lister Sure of You and

Rodney Listertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-88802832453790423022007-07-05T10:03:00.000-04:002007-07-05T10:35:51.347-04:00

On July 3, the very excellent percussionist, Sam Solomon, presented a Boston University Tangelwood Institute (BUTI) faculty recital at Trinity Church in Lenox (Ma). His program included pieces by Nico Muhly, Eric Hewitt, Michael Early, David T. Little, Marcos Balter, and Judd Greenstein, two of them--Hewitt and Early--first performances. Due to the circumstances, the place was packed with

Rodney Listertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-54411809564376339962007-04-21T01:38:00.000-04:002007-04-21T01:45:54.840-04:00

I was just listening to the new Ornette Coleman CD (Sound Grammar) and happened notice something interesting about "Sleep Talking." The opening bears a strikingly strong resemblance to "The Rite Of Spring" by Stravinsky. Same opening folk melody, with a similar layering of textures. It's nice to see that while some composers draw inspiration from jazz, jazz musicians can draw inspiration from

Matthew Cmieltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1158164041544627332006-09-13T11:51:00.000-04:002006-09-13T12:14:01.930-04:00

The Metropolis Ensemble is one of the hipper new chamber music groups around town, will open its second season on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 8 pm at the Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk Street, with the New York premiere of David Schiff's song cycle All About Love, a panoramic meditation on love and all that good stuff. Schiff, the ensemble's composer-in-residence, is

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1158068753469169452006-09-12T09:28:00.000-04:002006-09-12T09:54:12.630-04:00

Evans Chan's new documentary Sorceress of the New Piano,about the wildly adventuresome pianist Margaret Leng Tan, will have its New York premiere at Pioneer Two Boots Theater, East 3rd Street (off Avenue A), on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2006 at 6 pm. The undisputed queen of the toy piano will be on hand for special pre-screening performances and she and the director hang around

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157996542049297442006-09-11T13:37:00.000-04:002006-09-12T22:16:48.126-04:00

On the advice of technical counsel (the startled, somewhat irate, yet oddly lovable, Jeff Harrington) I have returned the new Sequenza21 pages to a "test environment" for further refinement before causing something catostrophic to happen. I'm glad so many of you liked it and I'm hoping we can get it back over here, and stable, as soon as possible. You can follow the work in progress (and get a

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157831252995726172006-09-09T15:25:00.000-04:002006-09-09T15:47:33.336-04:00

If you happen to be around my local Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle (which is what the real estate developers call the area around Lincoln Center these days), around 7 pm on Monday, you'll want to stop in and visit with José Serebrier, his wife Carole Farley, and Ned Rorem who will be signing their latest releases which just happen to be on the Naxos label. Serebrier's recording of Rorem's

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157722121450456742006-09-08T09:14:00.000-04:002006-09-08T09:34:08.556-04:00

Steve Reich turns 70 on October 3 and already the party has begun. Yesterday, he was awarded Japan's Praemium Imperiale award for music. The other winners of the 18th annual awards were Japan's Yayoi Kusama for painting, France's Christian Boltanski for sculpture, Germany's Frei Otto for architecture, and Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya for theater and film. Major surveys and programs are

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157679507324630792006-09-07T21:23:00.000-04:002006-09-07T21:42:39.990-04:00

Jefferson Friedman, one of our favorites among the young turks out there, has a couple of nice gigs coming up next week. On the 13th, 15th and 16th, the Chiara Quartet will be playing his sublime String Quartet No. 2 at Miller Theater, with choreography by Brian Reeder, as part of its New Ballet Choreographers series. And on Thursday night, Leonard Slatkin will lead the LAPhil at the Hollywood

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157577919855971502006-09-06T17:13:00.000-04:002006-09-06T17:26:18.626-04:00

Want to see and hear 16 different interpretations of Bright Sheng's new piece written especially for the Indianapolis Violin Competition? You can catch the performances LIVE, or recorded, beginning today at the competition's website. The competition--the 7th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis--opened on September 1 featuring 45 violinists representing 19 countries.

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157467858836499192006-09-05T10:44:00.000-04:002006-09-05T12:57:15.420-04:00

Don't forget the special online preview recording (semi-final version) of John Cage's longest Number Piece, the 121-minute Two3 (1991), for sho and conch shells this afternoon at around 4pm EDT at contemporary-classical.com I just put together a Mostly Cage page in the shoppe.

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157389544314031622006-09-04T12:47:00.000-04:002006-09-04T14:54:34.683-04:00

Happy Labor Day, class warriors. Lots of neat things coming up as we head into the fall season. The nice folks at OgreOgress invite you to listen to a special online preview recording (semi-final version) of John Cage's complete 121-minute Two3 (1991), for sho and conch shells tomorrow (John Cage's birthday) afternoon at around 4pm EDT at contemporary-classical.com Two3 is Cage's longest

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157241427761477962006-09-02T19:37:00.000-04:002006-09-02T19:57:08.576-04:00

In our continuing efforts to turn Sequenza21 into a full-service musical community (and to lift our annual income from Amazon.com above that crucial $200 a year mark), we have taken advantage of Amazon's new aStore concept and created The Sequenza21 Shop. This is a great little idea that allows people who run web sites to try to tailor the content specifically to the tastes of its readers. It's

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1157116542592498582006-09-01T09:09:00.000-04:002006-09-01T11:06:10.276-04:00

The Sequenza21 Concert Committee is pleased to announce the program for the inaugural Sequenza21 concert at CUNY's Elebash Hall on Monday, November 20 at 7:30pm: Galen Brown, Systems of Preference or Restraint Anthony Cornicello, The Gloved One Lawrence Dillon, Singing Silver Jeff Harrington, Preludes for piano Mary Jane Leach, Xantippe’s Rebuke Ian Moss,

David Salvagetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156967073149159292006-09-01T05:39:00.000-04:002006-09-01T01:55:20.206-04:00

The end of the BBC Proms and the other high profile European music festivals doesn’t mean we say goodbye to compelling music making. In fact there is a strong case for saying that the real music making is actually happening away from the ‘auto-pilot’ performances that typify the ‘London today, Edinburgh tomorrow’ itineraries of the big name, big ticket, touring orchestras. Two upcoming concerts

Pliabletag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156992088121693202006-08-30T22:32:00.000-04:002006-08-30T22:41:29.020-04:00

I don't have a photo of Aaron Cassidy communing with the kelp but Aaron's the latest composer to play 15 questions with tokafi, the online music magazine. They begin by quoting Wolfgang Schurig, who curates the yearly "Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik", as saying that Aaron is a composer "whose works are so over-structured, that all structure dissolves and can not be recognised any more." He

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156884496295708422006-08-29T16:26:00.000-04:002006-08-29T20:28:40.866-04:00

For reasons unknown to me (perhaps some of you know), Montclair State University has become a hotbed of exciting new music concerts, leading off the fall season on September 14 with a chamber opera by David Lang written orginally for the Kronos Quartet called The Difficulty of Crossing a Field. Based on one of those weird folk tales by Ambrose Bierce, the opera revolves around a mystery

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156845428263934592006-08-29T05:45:00.000-04:002006-08-30T06:07:12.670-04:00

On August 22 H K Gruber, the BBC Singers, and the BBC Symphony did a late night Prom featuring music by Gruber, Eisler, and Weill. The concert opened with a Gruber piece , Hidden Agenda, which had received its first performance two days earlier on a concert by the same people in Switzerland. Hidden Agenda is based on the famous "twelve tone row" from the development section of the Mozart g

Rodney Listertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156735940323324342006-08-28T00:05:00.000-04:002006-08-27T23:33:49.806-04:00

Our friend and sometime contributor/poacher Bob Shingleton, aka Pliable, is celebrating the second birthday of On an Overgrown Path with a fireworks display on the blog linked by the theme of Music beyond Borders. "But instead of letting off pyrotechnics a shower of posts are going up over the next few days, everything from crackers to rockets, and hopefully not too many damp squibs," Bob says

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156692626131335092006-08-27T11:23:00.000-04:002006-08-27T11:31:09.086-04:00

James Tenney, a maverick composer and a true American original, has died of lung cancer. Kyle knew him well and has details and an appreciation. He was in town for a series of concerts back in the winter, I think, but I wasn't able to make any of them, which was one more thing to regret. If anyone has special insights and wants to write a longer appreciation, send it to me and I'll post it here

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156605900605831702006-08-26T10:38:00.000-04:002006-08-26T11:26:36.450-04:00

We have a new forum page called Sequenza21 Workspace. This is a place to post Calls for Scores and information about scores available for performance. It is also intended to serve as a resource for information about the Sequenza21 Concert on November 20 at CUNY Graduate Center's Elebash Recital Hall, 34th and Fifth, 8 pm. You can add other "practical" categories if you need them but I'd

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156500440364463042006-08-25T05:47:00.001-04:002006-08-25T07:31:39.933-04:00

When the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Donald Runnicles were done in by what might be called increased security regulations and were not able do get to the UK to do their Proms concert on August 17, The City of London Sinfonia and Paul Daniel were able to step in. They did the scheduled program: Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks, Lutoslawski Paroles tissees, Wagner Siegfried Idyll, and Mozart Jupiter

Rodney Listertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156366891668997812006-08-23T16:59:00.000-04:002006-08-23T17:01:31.696-04:00

Dear Jerry, I received your email through Ian Moss. Perhaps you could assist me. I am a conductor living in Toronto, Canada. I am starting a choir of women's voices that will perform works of the 20th and 21st centuries. I am looking for new works to perform. Ian suggested that I post a "Call for Scores" through you and the Sequenza21 site. Can you tell me how I go about doing this? Should

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156263507963213462006-08-22T11:46:00.000-04:002006-08-22T12:24:16.746-04:00

There's bad news for those of us who have spent hundreds of happy hours drooling over CDs at Tower Records' iconic classical music department at 66th and Broadway. The largest and nearly last of the deep-catalog brick and mortar retailers has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years after being cut off by major suppliers for failing to pay its bills. MTS Inc.,

Jerry Bowlestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9573493.post-1156257425813576432006-08-22T10:30:00.000-04:002006-08-22T10:37:06.176-04:00

Noted in today's New York Times "Arts, Briefly," I had to know more. This orchestra, beset by all the problems you'd expect from a western orchestra in Iran, still managed to present a concert with three new works out of five. I think that's just incredible. Some foundation should give them a big fat grant. Here's the full AP release. http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/08/21/ap2962869

Eric J. Bruskin