Last night, we got two world premieres, both commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Both were conducted by the young Joana Carneiro.
Ursula Oppens both premiered Harold Meltzer’s new piano concerto called Privacy and stuck around for Dialogues by Elliott Carter.
Both Carter and Messiaen turn 100 this year, which explains why the previous Green Umbrella concert […]
There are several debates which represent ongoing issues related to writing about and having opinions about culture. They derive largely from the tension that art produces within a society. They are probably never going to be definitively answered, but for the purposes of any critic, one must take a side and let the reader understand […]
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Have you ever thought about all those pieces of music people tell you you’re supposed to love yet never found them remotely interesting to you at the moment. I usually have some things on my mp3 player that I don’t really listen to but have in case I feel compelled to explore it. I […]
I missed South By Southwest, but I really wanted to go. There was a Minimalism event with Steve Reich, but oh well, always next year, right?
Alamo Race Track played there. They’re a band from Amsterdam, and their music has been featured on Grey’s Anatomy (but who’s hasn’t?). The song was on their last album, Black […]
The Monday Evening Concerts can get pretty wild with amazing sounds and experimental structures. After attending the first one of the year last December, I hope to return again April 14. Above is a video from that December 3rd concert with music by Xenakis, Stravinsky, and Radulescu. I hope you’ll agree that this is not […]
