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Dina Koston
Established by composer/pianist Dina Koston, who named the fund after her husband, psychiatrist Roger Shapiro, the Roger Shapiro Fund is a new fund for commissioning, performance and recording of New Music. Ms. Koston intended the fund to promote music in the Western modernist tradition.
The Roger Shaprio Fund is concerned with promoting further knowledge and appreciation of the music of Dina Koston.
Connecting Composers
The Roger Shapiro Fund aims to arrange for composers to collaborate with organizations, particularly presenting organizations and performing ensembles that have built a sizeable audience or are implementing creative strategies to gain an audience for new music.
Reaching New Audiences
In addition to traditional concert venues, the Roger Shapiro Fund is interested in developing new ways for new music to reach people, including radio, television & internet, recording projects, new music in public spaces, real or virtual and innovative collaborations with other arts disciplines.
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Jonathan Dawe’s opera Nero and the Fall of Lehman Brothers
“A new modernity, a modernity that speaks to the world, and a modernity that, by the way, attracts a young audience and awakens consciences……….”
“We …
Two New York Performances featuring virtuoso guitarist
Ögmundur Thor Jóhanneson
-with guitarist Daniel Conant-
Icelandic guitarist Ögmundur Thor Jóhannesson is based in China, and concertizes all over the world. Article about Ögmundur in The …
Next Performances
May 18, 8PM at the Thalia Bar, at Symphony Space, Conant performs lute solos by Francesco Da Milano. He appears with featured Icelandic guitarist Ögmundur Thor Johannesson. Event is free, with complimentary wine & hors …
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16 June 2018
Christophe Huss’s review in Le Devoir leaves little to add, but I wish to provide a bit of context that Mr. Huss could not know.
How does Nero differ from Dawe’s other operas?
–Nero’s Baroque moments are far more subtle. In …
3 June 2018
Still jetlagged from time in Beijing, 12 time zones away from New York.
I wake up at 2am or 3am and start thinking about music. At the moment, it’s rap music.
Rap music/hiphop:
By eliminating or marginaizing pitch, the hiphop artists allow for …
29 May 2018
In Search of the Obvious Good
Robert Levin, master pianist and Mozart expert, was fond of telling his students that Beethoven’s music caused people to run out of the concert hall and vomit. He told us the story of Haydn telling Beethoven to tone …