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Music News Headlines
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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Music
Violin From The Titanic Is Authenticated
 BBC 05/24/13 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:29:32 -0800
Small Opera Companies Drive Innovation
 San Francisco Classical Voice 05/22/13 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:01:50 -0800
Orlando Philharmonic Buys Itself A Theater
 Orlando Sentinel 05/21/13 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:32 -0800
Florida Grand Opera Can't Find Stage Big Enough For Tristan
 The Miami Herald 05/23/13 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:54:02 -0800
Sequenza21/
Harold Shapero, Dead at 93
 Statement from the Shapero Family regarding the passing of Harold Shapero (1920-2013) Harold Shapero, an American composer, pianist and longtime Professor of Music at Brandeis University, passed peacefully in his sleep on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the age of 93, following complications with pneumonia. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on April 29, 1920, Shapero maintained [...] Sat, 18 May 2013 17:48:17 +0000
Black Wagner: African-American Wagnerism and the Question of Race Revisited
 Alex Ross’s next book, “Wagner–Art in the Shadow of Music” is still very much a work in progress but his keynote lecture at Wagner WorldWide 2013 at the University of South Carolina (now up on YouTube) demonstrates that he is on the trail of some fascinating, and little known, aspects of his subject’s world. Tue, 14 May 2013 17:08:25 +0000
Get Schooled on New Music at OjaiU
 Here’s something cool to mark on your calendar.  The Ojai Music Festival is launching  a free three-week online course next Wednesday, May 15,  leading up to the 2013 Festival which runs June 6-9.   The courses are designed to help audiences “listen smarter” and enable them to gain deeper insight into the music and programming [...] Sat, 11 May 2013 13:43:20 +0000
Monday at Carnegie: Violin Futura
 Some news about a hot ticket tonight from one of our regular contributors, composer Lawrence Dillon. After performing his Violin Futura program a gazillion times all over the map in the last six years, Piotr Szewczyk is bringing it to NYC (Carnegie Hall.  May 6th.  8 pm). What is Violin Futura?  In the words of [...] Mon, 06 May 2013 18:32:44 +0000
Wanted: Major WordPress Dude (or Dudette)
 We’re looking for a WordPress genius to help us update Sequenza21 by cleaning out the crawl space and attic, adding some new wiring and plumbing, attaching the garage to the main house, making the family room a more fun place to hang out and talk and to bring in a new Wolf oven and SubZero [...] Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:21:25 +0000
NYT > Music
At the Corner Of Jazz and Rock
 Black Host, a new project led by the drummer and composer Gerald Cleaver, is a possible dream band. Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Farewells Present and Foreseen, and Welcomes Extended to Collaborators
 New recordings out this week include offerings by George Strait, Colin Stetson and N.O.R.E. Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Out and Riding High in Nashville
 The songwriter Shane McAnally, who has helped write seven country No. 1 songs in recent years, found that his creativity flourished after he stopped hiding that he was gay. Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Amid the Din, Les Bons Temps Rouler
 Connolly’s, an Irish pub, is the city’s only major event space presenting Cajun and Zydeco acts on a regular basis. Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking
 And not caring what Elton John says about any of it. Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
The New Yorker:  Arts & Culture
Emily Nussbaum: Steven Soderbergh’s gorgeous homage to Liberace.
 In Dave Hickey’s 1992 essay “A Rhinestone As Big As the Ritz,” the critic made a case for the neglected legacy of Wladziu (Lee) Liberace, superstar pianist and sometime cultural punching bag. Liberace’s joyful opulence, his disciplined showmanship, made him “a genuine rhinestone . . . Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT
Sasha Frere-Jones: Daft Punk’s puzzling new album.
 In 1993, when the French duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo released their first record, as members of the rock band Darlin’, an English journalist described the music as “a daft punky thrash.” Shortened, this became the name of their next project, a not . . . Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT
Sasha Frere-Jones: Andrew Lustman (a.k.a. FaltyDL), at the Sullivan Room.
 It’s a truism by now to say that the Internet has made music placeless and ubiquitous; Andrew Lustman, known professionally as FaltyDL, is a perfect example of this principle. His work is a combination of garage and early-nineties electronica, genres that grew out of an exchange between . . . (Subscription required.) Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT
Peter Schjeldahl: Anselm Kiefer, at Gagosian.
 The historical and mythic themes of Anselm Kiefer’s epic canvases aren’t as compelling as they once were, when he made a redemptive difference in the world by disentangling Germanic culture from the sinister pathos and catastrophic effects of the Third Reich. Since then, his titanic spins . . . Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT
Nick Paumgarten: Carbone in Greenwich Village review.
 paragraph class="noindent">A lot of new restaurants are like freshmen: they try too hard. Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone, the men behind the super-deli Torrisi Italian Specialties, spent a year touring the five boroughs’ classic red-sauce restaurants to round up the ingredients of a high-toned . . . Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT
PlaybillArts.com
Mostly Mozart Festival 2013: Viennese Connections
 In 1787, at age 16, Ludwig van Beethoven traveled alone from Bonn to Vienna with the intention of studying with Mozart. The timing was not propitious. Mozart was immersed in composing Don Giovanni for its fall premiere in Prague. Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:00 EST
Shostakovich and Ballet
 When the curtain rises at the end of this month on the three ballets set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky for American Ballet Theatre, audiences are sure to gain a new understanding of this uniquely multifaceted composer. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:00 EST
A Chat With: Virginia Arts Festival Conductor JoAnn Faletta
 The Virginia Symphony and Richmond Ballet will present “The Rite of Spring” on May 29th as part of the Virginia Arts Festival - a festival of extraordinary arts experiences that lasts through June. The performance will take place at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, Virginia. Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:00 EST
The Killer Ballet that Changed Broadway: Reviving "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"
 In 1936, George Balanchine was a young Russian choreographer who had been in the United States for three years. He had launched a ballet school and was trying to establish a permanent company; Broadway musicals were hardly familiar terrain. Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:00:00 EST
NYT > Jazz
Reshaping Familiar Pop With a Maternal Caress
 Jane Monheit is singing at Birdland, and her best performances on Tuesday evening were of familiar songs that she turned into heartfelt reflections on motherhood. Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Jazz Listings for May 24-30
 A selected guide to jazz performances in New York City. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Urgency and Range, but Always in Control
 Songs from the saxophonist Noah Preminger’s new album, “Haymaker,” highlighted his show in Manhattan. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Improv to Tune of a Teacher
 Wayne Horvitz’s improvisations with the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble on Tuesday night seemed a nod to his good friend Butch Morris’s methods. Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
Watching Musicians Evolve Onstage
 Chick Corea presented Beka Gochiashvili and Gadi Lehavi at the Allen Room as part of his mini-festival. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500
NewMusicBox
New Music USA Awardees Celebrated at the New Museum
 Meredith Monk, John Luther Adams, Anthony Braxton, John Kander, William Kraft, Pacific Serenades, the JACK Quartet, and the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composers Apprentice Project were honored by New Music USA during a private ceremony at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City on May 13, 2013. Fri, 24 May 2013 20:44:21 +0000
Derek Bermel Named New Artistic Director of American Composers Orchestra
 Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has been named the new artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra commencing with the 2013-14 season. He succeeds composer Robert Beaser who has been ACO’s artistic director since 2000 and was ACO’s artistic advisor from 1993. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:08 +0000
Gathering Stones
 Going through my mother's effects has been like traversing an emotionally charged landscape that unrolls to reveal a fascinating design of discovered and rediscovered possessions of a person I've known from the start of my life. The material that currently has my attention is vinyl. Fri, 24 May 2013 16:26:26 +0000
Oklahoma: New Music North of the Red River
 My first introduction to Oklahoma was driving up I-35 in 2003 the day after a previous tornado had hit Moore. When I left, however, my impressions were not of windswept plains but of a surprisingly strong community of musicians and audiences who are open to performing and hearing new music. Fri, 24 May 2013 15:35:16 +0000
Commissioning Music and Stuff
 A performer friend and I were recently daydreaming about new possibilities for music commissioning—of chamber music, in particular. What if commissioning music were more a part of everyday life? Thu, 23 May 2013 16:18:10 +0000
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