Over the past few years, I had several opportunities to see the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson - perhaps best known as the Golden Globe-winning composer of The Theory of Everything, Arrival, and Sicario - perform […]
ACME Play the Music of Jóhann Jóhannsson at Le Poisson Rouge Read Post »
by Robert Leeper and FoM Let me cut to the chase: there is no one today writing music that is more relevant, more engaging, more viscerally exciting than Tristan Perich.
Tristan Perich at The Kitchen Read Post »
Most people probably had never heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before he won the Golden Globe this past January for his score to The Theory of Everything. But the Icelandic composer –
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass at the Temple of Dendur Read Post »
When you meet Caroline Shaw, your initial reaction is: She seems fairly ordinary. She keeps her hair short, dresses for comfort more than style, and speaks in a hushed, hurried voice.
Coffee Conversation: Caroline Shaw Read Post »
As distracting as it might be to see two star composers onstage—one of whom is the most recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize—21st-century musicians who have chosen entrepreneurship over academic
ACME Celebrates Lutoslawski at Symphony Space Read Post »
Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski—who, like Benjamin Britten, would have been 100 this year—hasn’t received anything close to the recognition of his British contemporary this season. (The NY Phil did perform
ACME Performs Music of Lutoslawski and Stucky Tonight at Symphony Space Read Post »
The music of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson cast a pall over (le) Poisson Rouge last night, where Jóhannsson performed live piano and electronics while accompanied by the string quartet from the American Contemporary
Jóhann Jóhannsson, ACME, and Angélica Negrón at (le) Poisson Rouge Read Post »
One of the most haunting musical compositions in recent memory, Steve Reich's WTC 9/11, will be performed tonight at Le Poisson Rouge by ACME, in a new all-live version for three
Steve Reich Complete Quartets Tonight at LPR Read Post »
