Fall/Winter 2012 - Volume 20, No. 2
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FALL/WINTER 2011 -Vol 19, Issue 2
On the Cover:
Back Street Ballet, silkscreen, by Meredith Mayer.
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Spring 2011 Issue
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
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Fall 2010 Issue
On the Cover:
Cage Variations (Noise), digitally-altered (prepared) photograph, by David Alexander
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Spring 2010 Issue
On the cover:
Preston Trombly’s “Sonata #2”, mixed-media assemblage made from piano parts in combination with other materials and artist pigments.
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Where Is New Music Going?
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New Issue: They Offer a Variety of Perspectives
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An Important Letter from an Important Choral Conductor
Greetings fellow musicians,
I am writing you because I feel you will be interested in what I have to say. I am very frustrated, to say the least, running my wonderful all-professional choir, The New York Virtuoso Singers (NYVS), which is just finishing its 21st season. Continue reading ‘An Important Letter from an Important Choral Conductor’
Opera Diary: The Friendly Enemy
By Gary A. Edwards © 2007
I have always wanted to write an opera. I love opera just because it combines music, art, drama and sometimes dance. I was introduced to opera as a teenager by a gentleman who mowed our lawns. He would play The Barber of Seville or Tosca on his 78-rpm records and explain the opera to me. At Indiana University my main activity was playing in the orchestra for several operas as I pursued my degree in music education.
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New Issue: Elliott Carter — 100 Years
CENTER STAGE: The Cambodian Aesthetics of a “Spiral Composer”
an Introduction to the Music of Chinary Ung
An on-going column by Edward Green
As I mentioned in my inaugural column, the purpose of these essays is to bring attention to composers who have created works of extraordinary merit, yet who have largely been placed on the periphery of the “New Music World.” The first column dealt with Robert Simpson of England; this, with a composer who contrasts with him in almost every regard: Chinary Ung.
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Peter Jarvis Interview
Carlton Wilkinson interviews percussionist Peter Jarvis for New Music Connoisseur newsletter/website.
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Music Hath Charms …
by B.L.C.
A movie about learning to play the bongo drums? No, not exactly, but the instrument does play a major role in the mid-life crisis of The Visitor, the ironically titled film about a Connecticut college professor, who comes back to New York after a long absence to deliver a paper at a conference and discovers people living in his paid-for apartment. Continue reading ‘Music Hath Charms …’
CENTER STAGE: The Cosmos and the String Quartet
— On the Chamber Music of Robert Simpson
An on-going column by Edward Green
This column is the first of a series bringing to “center stage” composers of great merit who, for whatever reason, have so far been only on the periphery of the “New Music World.” Sometimes the slight takes the form of misunderstanding. A composer may be “known” in the sense of public awareness, but “unknown” when it comes to a true appreciation of his or her work. More often, the work is so little-known, it hasn’t even had a chance to be misunderstood!
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New Issue: The Cracked Soundboard
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Latest Yellow Pages Entries
Want to hear some great musical downloads from living composers? Click on yellow pages box in the right column or right here and go to Audio Downloads.
Just in: Kyle Gann audio, a complete file of his finest pieces.
Also new in our Yellow Pages:
Concert and theater composer William Perry
Computer/electronic music composer Robert Rowe.
It’s Grieg to Them
By BLC ©2007
“A Gala Concert in Celebration of Edvard Grieg’s Centennial.” Marcus Paus: Two Lyrical Pieces — Rolf Wallin: Ground for Cello and String Orchestra (1996); music by Grieg and Johan Svendsen. Darrett Adkins, cello soloist; Per Brevig/Grieg Festival Orch. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NY, NY. December 9, 2007.
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A Breath of Eire
by Mark Greenfest ©2007
Mark N. Grant: The Rose of Tralee. Amor Artis Chorus and Orchestra, Johannes Somary, conductor. Church of the Blessed Sacrament, NY, NY. March 30, 2007.
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New Issue: Getting to Know You
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