COOPERSTOWN, NY — I’ve seen David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning the little match girl passion on at least three separate occasions now, and while the music has never ceased to haunt me, I’ve […]
Mark Dendy Dance's "Ritual Cyclical," set to the music of the Kronos Quartet for Lincoln Center Out of Doors' "KRONOS at 40." More pics here. (Show repeats tonight at 6PM.)
Lincoln Center’s new video portal officially went live today: LincolnCenter.org/watch. The portal contains interviews, features, performance clips, and a host of other content about goings-on at Lincoln Center. But,
"I've always thought of myself as a composer, but the world has had a hard time looking at me as a composer because a lot of what I compose is
River to River'sr EX-SITU series of site-specific performances concluded last night at South Street Seaport's Pier 15: a surprisingly sleek and peaceful space surrounded by water, and a far cry the
Last night, I stopped by Federal Hall—caddy-corner from the NY Stock Exchange and site of Washington's first inauguration—for Anna Clyne's The Violin: a multimedia piece for two violins, played by Cornelius Dufallo
I only got to see one performance this year during the seventh-annual Make Music New York: the day-long feast of free outdoor music, which this year coincided with the first National
Ancient and innovative can easily coexist. In music especially, composers and peroformers throughout history have looked back for guidence and inspirtaion as they move forward. Steve Reich has openly written about the debt his music owes to the 13th century French composer Pérotin and one of Felix Mendelssohn’s greatest achievements was his rediscovery of J.S Bach’s music with his mounting of the St. Matthews Passion.
On Sunday night, the JACK Quartet and guest cellist Joshua Roman continued this tradition of finding inspiration in history and programmed their findings next to the rule breakers of today. They presented three madrigals by the intensely expressive renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, arranged for sting quintet by JACK violinist Ari Streisfeld, as well as works by Joshua Roman, Brian Ferneyhough and a new piece, premiered by the quintet just three weeks ago in Seattle, by Jefferson Friedman.
