LA Phil President Deborah Borda was more than proud to say that LA Phil was bringing not only the first intensively Minimalist concert series to any major orchestra in the country, but will also be the first to release their live performances online to itunes April 4 (nevermind that the Milwaukee Symphony did it independently […]
Phililp Glass and John Adams are arguably the two biggest names in minimalism. They certainly grab more attention than Steve Reich or Terry Riley do. And they certainly have made huge strides in making the case for minimalism to a general classical music audience.
So it made some sense that they were presented as a double […]
Professor Robert Fink is a badass. He’s been part of the Minimalist Jukebox and his talks have been more or less the most illuminating about the subject. For one thing, in his Symposium lecture, he connected the minimalist movement to the very reason why it’s being linked with, of all things, a jukebox. To put […]
A few posts back I detailed my reasons why I thought these New Music concerts should start with a bang so as to get the audience pumped and not bored and ready to leave. And I got my wish sooner than later. The Terry Riley performance last night began with two early string pieces. The […]
Ten years ago I was walking through the University of California at San Diego. In the basement of the music department I heard a sound and I couldn’t resist trying to locate it. My mother was with me at the time and she followed me, not knowing what we were going to witness. Behind double […]
