http://newmusicon.org A publication of the Center for Contemporary Opera and the American Composers Alliance Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:40:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Da Capo Chamber Players Merkin Concert Hall, New York, October 10, 2011 By Anne Eisenberg The veteran Da Capo Chamber Players have a knack for programming, and on October 10 at Merkin Concert Hall they showed that flair yet again when they opened their 41st season with “Cool Britannia”– an innovative program featuring contemporary ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2012/03/06/cool-brittania/ Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, American Repertory Theatre with MIT’s Fast Arts Festival and Chicago Opera Theater, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, 25 March 2011; and Prometheus Bound, American Repertory Theater, Oberon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 29 March 2011 By Leann Davis Alspaugh You know you’re in a theatre full of science geeks when the line “What ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2012/03/06/gods-and-robots/ Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets Yale University Press By Mark Zuckerman Start the idea of great Twentieth Century Russian composers and three names likely spring to mind: Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Of the three, only Shostakovich spent his entire creative life in the Soviet Union. He came of age just ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2012/03/06/music-for-silenced-voices/ On the Cover: Back Street Ballet, silkscreen, by Meredith Mayer. IN THIS ISSUE +++ Contributors, 4 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Cool Brittania by Anne Eisenberg, 6 Nico Muhly, Dark Sisters by Ben Yarmolinsky, 7 Spring for Music by Barry O’Neal, 8 Song and Dance from a Scottish Master by Barry O’Neal, 10 Gods and Robots by Leann Davis Alspaugh, ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2012/03/06/fallwinter-2011-vol-19-issue-2/ by Leonard J. Lehrman Librettist/director/teacher Stephen Wadsworth had two big debuts in NY this past fall, first at the Met, then at City Opera. At the former, he took over the staging of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov when German director Peter Stein refused to subject himself to the indignities US customs ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/20th-century-operas-in-the-21st-century-part-1/ New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs Founding Director and Conductor; The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, NY, September 25, 2010 by Barry O’Neal The pool of fine young musicians at The Juilliard School that Joel Sachs draws upon for his New Juilliard Ensemble is genuinely inspiring. Their first concert of ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/fantastical-sounds-from-near-and-far/ February 16, 2011 By Cornelius Dufallo Violinist and composer Ana Milosavjevic presented a program of violin music at Le Poisson Rouge on February 16, in celebration of her new CD, Reflections (Innova Recordings). Ms. Milosavjevic performed five recent compositions, the oldest of which dates from 2006. The small, hip venue was ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/ana-milosavjevic-at-le-poisson-rouge/ Works by Frank, Fang, Tower, and Brahms; Symphony Space, May 6, 2011. by Anne Eisenberg The stage at Symphony Space, the performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, was just as you might have expected it to be on May 6th, just before the evening performance of the Cassatt String ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/cassatt-string-quartet-ursula-oppens/ On the Cover: Don Giovanni all’inferno, Found objects/mixed media assemblage made from bed springs with other materials and artist pigments by Renzo Oliva In this Issue +++ Contributors, 4 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Cassatt String Quartet, Ursula Oppens, 6 Ana Milosavjevic at Le Poisson Rouge, 7 New Chamber Music in Paradise, 8 A Dream Fulfilled, 9 Fantastical Sounds From Near ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/spring-2011-issue/ Oxford University Press, 2010 by Mark Zuckerman Terry Riley’s In C (1964) is widely regarded as the seminal work in the minimalist canon. Its score is lean: one page of music and about a page and a half of performance advice. The music is a sequence of 53 modules: numbered linear ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2010/12/09/robert-carl-terry-riley%e2%80%99s-in-c/