classical music
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Yesterday, the music publisher Edition Peters announced that it had signed an agreement with Ashley Fure, a composer of ferocious originality and power. Fure joins a roster already enriched by the signing last year of George Lewis and Sky Macklay. Fure's new association starts with four compositions: Bound to the Bow (2016), Shiver Lung (2016),
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the February 10, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates February 5-11. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) "In C"Le Poisson Rouge; Feb. 5 at 7:30 The 16th annual performance of Terry Riley's minimalist milestone, as coordinated by Darmstadt:
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Going back to the Yeats poem… I would like the audience to think about Project 19 in that way: that they're going to hear 19 new pieces by people who sometimes don't feel like they can have a voice, who are being given an opportunity to have a voice—and for audiences, once again, to tread
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the February 3, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 29-February 4. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) New York PhilharmonicDavid Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center; Jan. 30 at 7:30, Jan. 31 at 11am Distinguished Australian conductor Simone Young
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The extraordinary French composer Éliane Radigue was born on this day in 1932, and celebrated her 88th birthday today as an artist whose star very much appears to be in the ascendant. Her recordings are widely available now, in lovingly prepared editions with beautifully restored sound. Occam Ocean – the body of acoustic work Radigue
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 27, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 22-28. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) Scott Johnson with ContemporaneousRoulette, Brooklyn; Jan. 23 at 8 Guitarist and composer Johnson, innovator of a signature speech-based style, presents a
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Max Roach – "The Dream/It's Time," from Chattahoochie RedMax Roach, drums, composer; Odean Pope, tenor saxophone; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Calvin Hill, bassColumbia; 1981 Joseph Schwantner – New Morning for the World ("Daybreak of Freedom")Willie Stargell, narrator; Eastman Philharmonia/David EffronMercury; 1983
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Jan. 20 update: As confirmed by a Juilliard representative, this concert is happening in the Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, not at Alice Tully Hall. The Sharp Theatre is a smaller space, which means better proximity but less capacity. So if you're interested in tickets, don't delay… and you'll find them only at the
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 15-21. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) Chamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterKaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center; Jan. 16 at 7:30 Karlheinz Stockhausen's visionary Kontakte anchors a fine program
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Missy Mazzoli (Photograph: Marylene Mey) A little more than a decade ago, when I was at the Metropolitan Opera to see Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, I spotted the composer Missy Mazzoli passing by in the outer lobby. We'd known each other for a few years by then, and waved to one
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Say hello to my first obsession of 2020: "King of Thumbs," a selection from Reality Rounds, a new album by the composer and vocalist Alex Dowling. I find this realization of a cybernetic vocal consort – created by four singers individually equipped with AutoTune and other effects, and synthesizer accompaniment – completely mesmerizing. In this
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 13, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 8-14. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) New York PhilharmonicDavid Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center; Jan. 9 at 7:30, Jan. 10 at 2, Jan. 11 at 8 Conductor
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On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 6, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 1-7. (Links lead to detailed listings on the New Yorker website.) James MooreThe Stone at the New School; Jan. 2-4 at 8:30 Guitarist James Moore's Stone residency is brief but eventful:
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Among the many, many things to admire about the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art – which officially opens to the public on Monday, Oct. 21, but actually had a secret soft opening on Sunday, Oct. 20 – is an installation of Rainforest V (variation 1), as conceived by the iconic experimental composer/performer David Tudor,
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>>news added to the end of this post…<< The Morton Feldman Piano box by Philip Thomas on Another Timbre unquestionably is among this year’s foremost achievements… but Philip has another new CD that's worth your attention, as well: as if as features original compositions and Derek Bailey transcriptions (!!) by Chris Burn, just out on
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the May 13, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates May 8-14. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the May 6, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates May 1-7. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]
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