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Category: On the Beat
20 July 2023
Composer Frank Brickle shares his thoughts about Scott Johnson
Frank Brickle was always less pig-headed than I was. Frank was an early advocate for Morton Feldman within certain cirlces in which and at a time when Feldman was a hard sell. He advocated …
22 May 2023
Dina Koston, founder of the RSF, complained about neo-romantic music. The phrase I remember her using was “warmed-over Schumann”. But that was directed at other names, not at Del Tredici.
I was surprised to learn that she programmed the music of …
22 May 2023
Thanks, Liz Thomson, co-founder and Director of The Village Trip, together with Cliff Pearson, for helping me clarify the provenance of Herrick’s Oratorio.
Fr. Graeme Napier, Rector of St. John’s in the Village, hoped to commission a mass …
1 July 2022
RSF commissioned David Amram to set two poems by his old friend Jack Kerouac, celebrating the Kerouac Centenary, scored for voice and two guitars.
Hear them on September 10 at St. John’s in the Village, an opening event for The Village Trip. They …
23 January 2022
CompCord at Drom
Details will be provided shortly. Many details need to be filled in.This was a memorable concert. Please look out for further activities of Composers Concordance.
DROM is close enough to the Magic Theater of Steppenwolf. It’s in …
16 January 2022
Bernofsky & Walser
–Clairvoyant of the Small–
The Life of Robert Walser
By Susan Bernofsky
Susan Bernofsky’s biography beautifully captures the sweep of Walser’s crazy life, despite gaps with scant records of his …
23 November 2021
A modernist composer joined a music composition faculty, but not without first being interviewed by a minimalist already on the faculty.
Minimalist:
–We understand you’re a modernist and we’re OK with that.
Modernist:
–Thank you …
4 November 2021
Agustín Castilla-Ávila’s “True Love is Not a Flower”
see http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/chp4-7.html
Agustín Castilla-Ávila’s music often sets into motion something that I’ve come to think of as instrumental …
