Don’t miss Alex Ross’ wonderful portrait of Steve Reich in the new New Yorker.  Yes, the New Yorker. Robert Gable has a video link to the London Steve Reich Ensemble…

Tomorrow (Nov 6) soloist Nicholas Daniel (left) and the Britten Sinfonia give the world premiere of John Tavener’s oboe concert Kaleidoscopes at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. The new work is Tavener’s…

You don’t need to be a rock star to have a different take on the music of John Dowland. Jazz pianist, cellist, accordion player and envelope pusher Huw Warren (left) uses piano, keyboards…

Season two of Keys to the Future, a festival of contemporary music for solo piano, takes place next week, November 7-9 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) at Greenwich House’s Renee Weiler Concert…

Our weekly listen and look at composers and performers that you may not know yet, but should… And can, right here and now, since they’re nice enough to offer a…

Leach_Xantippe_sRebuke_pg12[1].pdf  From Sequenza21 regular Mary Jane Leach:  Xantippe’s Rebuke, for oboe soloist and eight taped oboes, is an intense study in sound that tickles your ears. It will be performed…

The clock is ticking and things are pretty tense here in the old control room.  The fate of the Republic hangs in the balance.  I refer, of course, not just to…

Jeff Sackmann has an extra ticket to the Gidon Kremer/ Brahms sonatas concert at Carnegie Hall tonight.  I can’t go but if you send him an e-mail stat,  you probably can.   jeffsackmann@gmail.com.

Morton Feldman An 80th Birthday Celebration Merkin Concert Hall Saturday, October 28, 2006 I am perpetually late with birthday greetings. This past Saturday, as my wife and I entered the…

Anybody know who’s writing the Intermission: Impossible blog for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center?  Clever writer.  Check it out today for Fred Sherry’s Top 11 Approaching Newness picks.  Who…