BOAC Marathon redux at MASS MoCA
North Adams MA’s summer claim to fame, the Bang on a Can summer music fest, has been going great guns…
Houston Mixtape #3: The Epicenter Of Noise
Outside the Eldorado Ballroom, Houston, TX (Photo by Chris Becker) “ …(Houston is) one of the epicenters of noise bands…
Christopher Stark Wins ACO’s Underwood Commission
Montana native Christopher Stark has won American Composers Orchestra’s 2010 Underwood Commission, earning him a $15,000 purse for a work…
Cautious Optimism, Ambitious Pragmatism: An Interview with Klaus Heymann
Naxos Records’ founder and CEO Klaus Heymann meets me in a café, downstairs in the midtown hotel where he’s staying…
Got a 10-minute (or less) opera lying around? Here’s a HOT opportunity.
If you’re an aspiring Wagnerian, this probably won’t interest you much but the nice folks at Hartford Opera Theater (HOT)…
The Bare Minimal
My graduate history seminar on minimalism starts next week at Westminster Choir College. I’ll be teaching the course in a…
In praise of Eric Lyon
Why do some extraordinarily talented people never show up on the radar? Eric Lyon is one such unsung genius. I…
Ominous Portents
I found one of my favorite reviews from the 1990’s (Roger Reynolds’s Dreaming and Harvey Sollberger’s Passages), and posted it…
Does the World Need Another Online Music Community?
It’s summer, it’s hot, and the music scene here in the Center of the Universe is fairly slow so I…
He acted too!
The Varèse (R)evolution is tonight and tomorrow at Lincoln Center. Thanks to Alex Ross for pointing out this YouTube clip.