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Category: On the Beat
8 November 2024
Jonathan Cross:
‘The spectral adventure has allowed the renovation, without imitation of the foundations of occidental music, because it is not a closed technique but an attitude.’11 Subsequent composers such as Marc-Andre ́ Dalbavie and Philippe …
3 September 2024
Ives, a Greenwich Village composer in his younger days, will be represented in The Village Trip lineup with his Violin Sonata #4 performed by violinist David Fulmer and pianist Joan …
18 August 2024
Metaphors and Analogies
I’m staking out some positions running up to >The microtonal Village< – an important part of a weekend of concerts September 19 through 22.
The Village Trip American Primitive and Inventors of Genius …
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 …
22 April 2024
Suben Memorial
Scorca Hall starting at 11 AM on May 4
330 7th Ave
7th Floor
New York, NY 10001
When I was studying composition with Joel Suben, he avowed a deep love of Carter. And he expressed a reservation.
Sometimes Carter “hangs his …
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. …
