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’

NY Phil Composer-in-Residence Endowment

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES $10 MILLION GIFT FROM HENRY R. KRAVIS TO ENDOW THE MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE POSITION AND THE CREATION OF THE MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS PRIZE FOR NEW MUSIC AT THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
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A William Bolcom Video

Wm. Bolcom’s Introduzione e Rondo: HAYDN GO SEEK was premiered in
May 2009 by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt in Eisenstadt, Austria. That performance
was featured on Germany’s international broadcast service, Deutsche Welle. The
composer can be seen here working with the trio.

SF Symphony Keeping Score

MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PREMIERE SECOND SEASON OF KEEPING SCORE PBS TELEVISION SERIES IN OCTOBER

Three-Part Series Begins Airing October 15, 22, and 29 at 10 P.M.
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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’

Operatic Bats in the Belfry

by Larry Vide ©2008
Robert Moran: The Dracula Diary. Libretto (included) by James Skofield. Houston Grand Opera Studio. Catalyst/BMG Records. 09026-62638-2. (71:24)
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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?’

Letters

These letters were published in Vol. 17, #1.
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HAROLD BROWN CENTENNIAL

“The first real composer I ever knew“ —Ned Rorem

Harold Brown, 1940s
CHAMBER AND VOCAL WORKS

Saturday October 31, 3 pm
Advent Lutheran Church
Broadway at West 93rd Street, Manhattan

For program details and associated events, visit
www.renaissancechorus.org

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 …