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Category: composers
17 May 2024
October 10 7:30 at Loft393
there will a preview of Trevor Bača-Paul Griffiths’ when the time comes featuring actress Nancy Robinette, director Joy Zinoman and Cygnus. This project is a first in theater, where the musicians as musicians are …
20 April 2024
Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt
presents
21st-Century Wanderers: Jonathan HARVEY / Helmut LACHENMANN
Manuel LAUFER, piano
Dorothea HAYLEY, soprano
Friday, December 13 (2021? during Covid?) at 8 pm
Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East
I …
18 March 2024
Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain
I come back to Brokeback Mountain from time to time. There are elusive mysteries lurking in Wuorinen’s great work and in Proulx’s short story. I’ve taken this dive before and each time I hope to get …
16 March 2024
depicted: Adalbert Stifter
Intro to Stifter’s *Many Colored Stones*
A Tale of Two Synecdoches
I met Louis Andriessen when I played De Staadt with NY Phil under Gunther Schuller. David Starobin was the other guitarist and Scott Kuney played bass. …
11 February 2024
The brilliant and enterprising composer Emil Awad is the founder and director of the Festival Camarata 21 at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many of us have participated – Mario Davidovsky, Robert Pollock, Suzanne Farrin, …
19 December 2023
In a modern building, like a Frank Gehry building, the joinery is often custom joinery designed specifically for the needs of one building. The angles might not be 90 degrees.
So also in music. I am so accustomed to customized joinery that I find …
26 October 2023
In progress…
Yesterday at Oktaven Studios in Mount Vernon, New York, Cygnus recorded Martin Boykan’s “Diptych” and Richard Festinger’s “Hidden Spring”.
Some notes on Boykan, HERE. Those comments mostly about …
20 July 2023
Composer Frank Brickle shares his thoughts about Scott Johnson
Frank Brickle was always less pig-headed than I was. Frank was an early advocate for Morton Feldman within certain cirlces in which and at a time when Feldman was a hard sell. He advocated …
