R.I.P. János Négyesy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmeEzvIyBY[/youtube] Above: From the first European recording of the complete Ives Violin Sonatas, by János Négyesy and Cornelius Cardew Those…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRmeEzvIyBY[/youtube] Above: From the first European recording of the complete Ives Violin Sonatas, by János Négyesy and Cornelius Cardew Those…
Today is the last day you can hear Derive 2 at the BBC’s web site–they stream for one week after…
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so consider this photo album a 26,000 word review until I…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZU_fK4-J8[/youtube] Early reviews care of bloggers (one well-informed, one not so much) Boosey and Hawkes has a perusal score available–through…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSbOCfIh3HI[/youtube] There has been plenty of eulogizing and assessment of Maurice Sendak’s remarkable career, most of it focused (rightly so)…
How awful is the dystopia in The Hunger Games? Well, if you listen to one cue in the movie, you…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwZ9uPQw33E&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Two American premieres of important new works by Louis Andriessen at the LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella concert tomorrow evening…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y[/youtube] We had just seen John Cage recite his mesostic/theater work, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet. My…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oOj1EKSS6M[/youtube] This has got to be a first. Luis Andrei Cobo is offering his services to compose a grand opera…
Seems like it’s been a while since we had some Golijov bashing (and defending) on our site. What do you…