Prism Quartet celebrates 25th Anniversary at LPR on 1/31
This Sunday, the Prism Quartet is celebrating 25 years of concertizing and the release of various CDs with a show at Le…
And the nominees are….
The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards are on Sunday night, here’s the list of all the classical music-related categories and nominees,…
Concordance later, but first a saxy song
New and specialized ensembles, groups of composers and performers banding together, DIY concerts and record labels… All the stuff of…
Control’s Been Seen..at the Jo Berg Airport
The nice people at Chamber Music America have invited your humble correspondent (that’s me) to discuss “Using Social Networking to…
Talking with composers, Canada and beyond
Each generation of composers coming up through college is always a little dismayed to find their music history survey books…
Conversations
We heard from Christian Carey last week that the American Composers Orchestra has brought on George Manahan as their new…
Music for Multiple Basses and The President of the United States
Florent Ghys has a new CD coming out on Cantaloupe on Tuesday. To mark the occasion and the upcoming The…
The Two Best Things I’ve Heard in Weeks
1. Kyle Gann recently posted Carolyn Yarnell’s piano piece The Same Sky on his blog. (Click here and scroll down…
Incoming
Head’s up on a couple things this coming week that caught my eye: WPRB’s Marvin Rosen is doing a special…
A little Friday music
Champ pianist Sarah Cahill performing Henry Cowell’s Tiger and Lou Harrison’s Largo Ostinato, from the December 2008 Other Minds “New…