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…
Boulez on BBC Proms
Today is the last day you can hear Derive 2 at the BBC’s web site–they stream for one week after…
Concert review
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The West Coast premiere of Inuksuit at the 2012 Ojai Music Festival
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words, so consider this photo album a 26,000 word review until I…
The Gospel According to The Other Mary
[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…
The Opera Librettos of Maurice Sendak
[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)…
Laurie Spiegel’s appearance in The Hunger Games
How awful is the dystopia in The Hunger Games? Well, if you listen to one cue in the movie, you…
Behind the Green Umbrella: Lust, Sado-Masochism, and Incest in Andriessen’s “Anais Nin”
[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…
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John Cage events in Los Angeles
[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…
Because Opera Directors Look for New Operas on Ebay
[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…
Osvaldo Golijov: Thief? Collaborator? Genius?
Seems like it’s been a while since we had some Golijov bashing (and defending) on our site. What do you…