Boulez @100
Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony, Carnegie Hall, March 2009 "When he first entered class, (Boulez) was very nice. But soon he became angry with the whole world. He thought […]
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Louis Andriessen (1939-2021)
Louis Andriessen following the world premiere of Agamemnon at the New York Philharmonic, October 2018 Less than a week following the death of Frederic Rzewski, on Thursday we lost
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Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)
(Frederic Rzewski performing The People United Shall Never Be Defeated! at 2017's Big Ears Festival) De mortuis nihil nisi bonum ("Don't speak ill of the dead") – Chilon of Sparta
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Composer Portrait: Caroline Shaw with Attacca Quartet and So Percussion
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) Simply put: What can't Caroline Shaw do? As a violinist, she seems just as much at home playing a Mozart quartet as
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Lorin
Has any American conductor ever had a more astonishing career than Lorin Maazel, who passed away this morning at the age of 84? Following his debut at the age of 9
Bora Yoon’s Sunken Cathedral at Asia Society: A Sonic Journey Through the Subconscious
by Poppy Galloway Photo credit: AsiaSociety Korean-American composer, vocalist, and sound artist Bora Yoon performed to an intimate crowd at the Asia Society on Wednesday evening, in celebration of her
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Elliott
As I've mentioned in the past, New Yorkers got into the ridiculous habit in recent years of expecting to see Elliott Carter out at concerts, long after most of us would be
For Marvin Hamlisch
"It’s easy to write things that are so self-conscious that they become pretentious, that have a lot of noise. It’s very hard to write a simple melody.”
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Bartók in New York
When I visited Budapest earlier this month, the last stop I made on my way back to Vienna was Béla Bartók's residence, high up in the Buda hills. The house,
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