Where Is New Music Going?

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Fred Lerdahl named CRF’s “Composer of the Year”

On November 24, 2009, at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Fred Lerdahl was honored with the Classical Recording Foundation’s prestigious “Composer of the Year” award.
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Tribeca Young Composer Competition!

Preston Stahly, Artistic and Executive Director of the New York Art Ensemble, announces the 2010 Young Composer Competition for students 21 years of age and younger (born after December 31, 1987).
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More People Love Classical During Tough Times

Survey Participants at Largest Online Classical Music Site, www.ClassicalArchives.com Say Classical Music Acts as a Stress Reliever

In a survey just conducted by Classical Archives, the ultimate online destination for classical music, over 20% of the respondents said they love classical music because it relaxes them and acts as a stress reliever in their hectic lives. The survey suggests that classical music, more than rock and pop, is able to calm the nerves in tough times.
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Acentech Acoustics for Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals

Acentech’s Studio A Unveils Acoustics for Puerto Rico’s Brand-New Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals

Firm Provides Acoustical Consulting for New Symphony Hall in Centro de Bellas Artes
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Robert and Hal, Opera by Richard Brooks

by Eugene W. McBride © 2009

Richard Brooks: Robert And Hal, Opera in Three Acts, Golden Fleece Ltd., Lou Rodgers, producing artistic director, Thomas Carlo Bo, music director. Sanford Meisner Theatre, New York, NY, June 2008 Continue reading ‘Robert and Hal, Opera by Richard Brooks’

Dotted Notes…

[This is only one excerpt from the complete Dotted Notes found in our magazine.]

From Leonard Lehrman:

The New York premiere Feb. 23, 2008 of Dark Heaven Angel by Garth Edwin Sunderland, Music Editor of the Leonard Bernstein Office and Artistic Director of the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, was performed by solo cellist Eric Jacobsen, occasionally using two bows, and inadvertently assisted by car horns from outside Judson Memorial Church. The major work presented by said Ensemble also featured Mr. Jacobsen, and five players, conducted by Silas Huff, with solo dancer Dora Arreola, in Peter Maxwell Davies’s “Vesalii Icones,” a sensitive 14-part instrumental passion narrative from Gethsemane to the Resurrection, as inspired by 16th century drawings, De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius. Continue reading ‘Dotted Notes…’

Music with A Lot of Pluck

by Joseph Pehrson ©2009
Guitar Music of Gene PRITSKER performed by guitarist Greg Baker: Scars, Wounds and Lacerations. Available at www.gregbakerguitar.com.

Gene Pritsker is an expert guitarist, so it should be no surprise that he is very capable of writing for his native instrument. Greg Baker has come out with a compendium of the complete solo Pritsker acoustic and electric guitar music to date, and he does a fine job of navigating the intricacies of Pritsker’s work.
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Terpsichore’s Dream

Terpsichore’s Dream for Chamber Orchestra: Instrumental music by Augusta Read Thomas directed by Cliff Colnoton on a one-track CD 15:30. by Gary Edwards Continue reading ‘Terpsichore’s Dream’

CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Leonard Lehrman
Is The Rest Really Just Noise?

©2008
Alex Ross’s long-awaited book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 624 pp., 21 photos, no musical examples), is the most ambitious overview of its kind since William Austin’s Music in the 20th Century (W.W. Norton, 1966, 708pp., 41 photos, many musical examples). Comparing the two may be instructive: Continue reading ‘CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Leonard Lehrman
Is The Rest Really Just Noise?’

Thoughts on Leon Kirchner (1919-2009)

by Leonard J. Lehrman, Nov. 2009

Leon Kirchner was a force of nature, as pianist, conductor, composer, and musical analyst. In 1966, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Third String Quartet with Electronic Sound, which he had learned about mostly from Morton Subotnick, and never taught any of his students. I sought him out that year for a personal interview, before deciding on whether to attend Harvard College and study composition with him. It took months of phone calls and numerous messages, but I finally did reach him, and set up an appointment, at his home in Cambridge. Continue reading ‘Thoughts on Leon Kirchner (1919-2009)’

The Elie Siegmeister Centennial Concerts & CD

The Elie Siegmeister Centennial CD is here! — “a timely album of varied and eminently worthy discoveries” - Robert Sherman. Come hear the music of Elie Siegmeister - and his students - in 16 concerts planned for 2009. More …

Elie Siegmeister Centennial

The Prof. Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation and The Elie Siegmeister Society request contributions — letters, programs, recordings, anecdotes, and donations — toward the forthcoming bio-bibliography More …