A publication of the Center for Contemporary Opera and the American Composers Alliance Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:15:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the Cover: Winter Journey (Winterreise) 2010; Oil on linen, 26 x 20″; Collection of Jock Ireland, NYC IN THIS ISSUE +++ Contributors, 4 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Sofia Gubadalaina by Anne Eisenberg, 5 Music from the Distracted Generation, by Barry O’Neal, 6 Tempest Treatments by Leonard J. Lehrman, 8 The Mark of Cain by Benjamin Yarmolinsky, 9 Magic to ... /2013/06/30/fallwinter-2012-volume-20-no-2/ by Anne Eisenberg A big snowstorm brought much of New York City to a stop on February 9, but it didn’t deter the booted, scarved crowd drawn to Miller Theatre at Columbia University for the program Composer Portraits that featured the unconventional, powerful music of Sofia Gubaidulina, the ... /2013/06/30/sofia-gubaidulina-at-miller/ The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess by Paul Phillips. Manchester University Press 2010. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Mcmillan. By Mark N. Grant “The obscurity created by the wrong kind of fame”– a wonderful phrase coined in 1955 by conductor Richard Franko Goldman to describe a pitfall suffered by some ... /2013/06/30/a-clockwork-counterpoint/ Howard Pollack [Oxford University Press] By Mark Zuckerman Perhaps the greatest irony for American composer Marc Blitzstein (1905‐1964) – in a life and career laden with ironies – is that his biggest critical and monetary success came not from any of his many substantial original works, but from his Off‐Broadway adaptation of ... /2013/06/30/marc-blitzstein-his-life-his-work-his-world/ by Ben Boretz There is no question that the repetitive-pulse structures of minimalist composition make a powerful experiential point. The only question is whether they do not always make the same point, whose individual inflections are locked within an overbearing stylistic affective definition. Everyone really knows that objectivity in the descriptive criticism ... /2013/06/30/some-recent-cds/ by Mark Shapiro Serendipitously, as I was walking down Broadway pondering how to convey to readers of New Music Connoisseur the experience of watching 31‐year old Australian filmmaker Rohan Spong’s tenderly engaging 2011 documentary film All the Way through Evening, my attention was drawn to a fellow pedestrian coming up the ... /2013/06/30/all-the-way-through-evening/ 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 ... /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 ... /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 ... /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, ... /2012/03/06/fallwinter-2011-vol-19-issue-2/