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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] his double bass to play a recital piece, and the publisher Byelayev “turned to me and said, ‘Until now, such things have been seen only in circuses.’” Koussevitzky was of course well known as a virtuoso bass player, but he was also a rival publisher, doubtless to Byelayev’s annoyance.) The TMC Festival of Contemporary Music, what some of us still call Fromm Week, July 25th-29th, offers seventeen composers, plus works by Tania León and Steven Mackey, directors, on each of six programs. There will be piano recitals by Jeremy Denk and Yuja Wang, and all manner of chamber music, and, on August 30th, even Judy Collins and friends. Lastly, once can savor a list of debuts and represented living composers HERE. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton […]
2022-05-22 11:41:46
Primo Artists has launched their inaugural Public Relations Division which includes on its roster, conductors Gemma New and James Gaffigan; and GRAMMY Award-winning composer Steven Mackey. Additionally, the Vice President of the PR Division is Katy Salomon, who will assume the role, effective immediately. “I’m thrilled to join the illustrious Primo Artists and look […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-05-11 20:03:40
The composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music will expand by four beginning in the 2022–23 school year. Mr. DiBerardino, Dr. Holland, Dr. Kirsten, and Dr. Mackey will work with Curtis students through individual lessons, coaching, and seminars. They will work alongside current faculty member Richard Danielpour and join Curtis' roster of artists […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-05-01 17:24:00
[…] style wars of 50 years ago. He's not a musicologist. He is dabbling by reading music writing that fulfills his preconceived notions. It's possible to be better read than he is in current music writing. You'll hear a lot more music in U.S. concert halls by (for example) Adams, Reich, Glass, Harbison, Corigliano, Picker, Adamo, the other John Adams, Riley, Rouse, Holloway, Chin, Adès, Gubaidulina, Golijov, Saariaho, Lindberg, Ligeti, Dessner, Lutoslawski, Montgomery, Sallinen, Rautavara, Paart, Dutilleux, Messiaen, Bates, Stucky, Mackey, Clyne, Yi, Bernstein, Harrison, Feldman, Muhly, Diamond, Copland, Stravinsky, Salonen, and others than you'll hear by serialists or by composers using different compositional techniques whose music is dissonant. It's a bad idea to write about serialism as though all composers who use the technique write similar music. Remember, that means that you're lumping together composers as distinctive as Berg and Webern, to go back to early serialists. Whatever Boulez said....you need to look at […]
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