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Tag: compositional practice
12 November 2020
Flat Earth & Aggregates
(wonky, for musicians, but not wonky enough for theorists)
In the early 16th Century Magellan circumnavigated the globe. At around the same time, musicians navigated the circle of fifths. During the few moments when the US …
12 November 2020
November 12, 2020 Dan Lippel & New Focus Records produces a recording of Charles Wuorinen’s Electric Quartet (2013)
Dan Lippel, Oren Fader, John Chang and William Anderson, guitars
Ryan Streber, producer/engineer – Oktaven Studios, Mount …
6 November 2020
Iao Theater, Wailuku, Mauik Maui, Hawai’i
multimedia performance presented by Ebb & Flow Arts
Upcoming on Furious Artisans
E n t e r t w i n e d
Robert Pollock Five Decades
Pollock’s music is unique, and uniquely American.His sound …
13 October 2019
This was written in 2019, when I did not know that Brouwer had studied with Wolpe. Blame the late Frank Brickle for drilling it into me that Morton Feldman’s broken symmetries come from Wolpe. In the early 70s (?) Brickle was studying Feldman and …
12 October 2018
….the last bar of Terry Riley’s Y Bolanzero, for guitar orchestra–a wierd 8-note collection with no G#, no F#, no B, no D#….
Austrian guitar virtuoso Yvonne Zehner will be principal player with a crack group of Queens College …
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 …
28 May 2018
A Triumph for Chinese Music
LIU Li — LIANG Nan — Zhang CHUN — Tan Dun
Beijing Modern Music Festival Hosts ISCM World Music Days, 2018 in Beijing
This is a personal response to the 2018 Festival and does not reflect an official Roger Shapiro …
18 December 2016
The Bang on a Can composers are now in the enviable position to compose and produce evening-length works. David Lang’s “love fail” & “Little Match Girl” were followed in 2014 by Julia Wolfe’s “Steel …
