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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Music
How Downloading Is Changing Music
 "Digital downloading and distribution, illegally or otherwise, has had a greater effect on the recording industry than anything in its history. As the legal variety grows rapidly, driven most significantly by iTunes, so those old-school players are having to adopt radical new business plans to compete in the brave new world of music."... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:08:32 -0800
Tchaikovsky's Operatic Counterpart To Nutcracker
 Director Francesca Zambello recounts the story (in both senses) of Cherevichki (a/k/a "The Tsarina's Slippers"), Tchaikovsky's only comic opera, which is based on a madcap Christmas Eve story by Nikolai Gogol. (Zambello is directing a new staging of the work at Covent Garden.)... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:23:31 -0800
The Composer Who Just Can't Write For Normal Ensembles
 That would be Bang on a Can's Julia Wolfe, whose latest album has works for four drum sets, six pianists, eight double basses, and nine bagpipers. She's written an accordion concerto and a piece for musicians in pedicabs. "The last time I did something practical … was [in graduate school] at Yale - I wrote a woodwind quintet."... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:56:44 -0800
Edward Elgar Was A Terrible Trombone Player
 A newly rediscovered letter reveals the awful truth. "His skills were so poor that when the composer from Worcester started playing a specially inscribed trombone for a dear friend, she ran out of the room in a fit of hysterical laughter, leaving the composer swearing in frustration."... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:16 -0800
What Community Orchestras Taught Joseph Schwantner
 "They are more limited in terms of their experience, and to engage a new work is a major challenge," the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer says. "I've learned that you have to be patient; you have to give them an opportunity to digest this music and make it their own. But ... I've seen them rise to the challenge."... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:44:21 -0800
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Let’s Ask Matt Davignon
 Experimental music impresario Matt Davignon is known all over the San Francisco Bay Area for organizing unusual music performances.?? In addition to being responsible for such events as the San Francisco Found Objects Festival, he???s a member of the Outsound Presents Board of Directors and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival Steering Committee.?? This Thursday [...] Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:12:27 +0000
Last Night in L.A.: Preludes to a Festival
 This coming Saturday is the official opening concert of the L.A. Phil’s exciting new festival, West Coast, Left Coast, but performances introducing the concept have now begun. REDCAT showed a “re-interpretation” of a noted performance piece with music by Morton Subotnick and choreography by Anna Halprin, and Jacaranda Music had another full audience for [...] Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:44:22 +0000
Truly Canadian
 Sunday, November 15th, the Esprit Orchestra and conductor Alex Pauk are giving what I think will be a really wonderful concert. It happens in Toronto, at 8PM in Koerner Hall at The??Royal Conservatory (273 Bloor Street West, Toronto), with a 7:15Pm pre-concert chat with a composer and guest artists. That composer would be Alexina Louie, [...] Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:38:42 +0000
Wolfgang Digs Newport
 Wolfgang Grajonca that is, who is better-known to us old hippies as Bill Graham, the late impressario of the Fillmores East and West and the man who brought the music to a thousand purple-hazed nights of our misspent youths. Graham taped and saved everything and you can stream hundreds of full concerts free (downloading [...] Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:08:44 +0000
Multiple goodness
 Just a few weeks ago over at our CD Review section, Jay Batzner wrote about the new Julia Wolfe Dark Full Ride CD: “Each piece transfixes me.?? I am writing my own music differently because of this disc.?? I am so glad that Julia Wolfe exists, is writing music, and that such talented performers play [...] Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:52:56 +0000
NYT > Music
Glass Looks to the Heavens, Again
 Philip Glass’s weighty and tangled opera, “Kepler,” which arrived at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednesday, examines the relationship between science and religion. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
A Bit of Jive Stands Out at a Tribute to Mercer
 Sheldon Harnick was the only performer able to capture intact the lighthearted glee of Mercer’s comic imagination in the tribute at the 92nd St. Y on Wednesday. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Pop and Rock Listings
 POP. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Strauss, Neapolitan Tunes and a Festive Singalong
 The soprano Aprile Millo made her New York recital debut with an eclectic program of works by Donaudy, Wolf-Ferrari and Rachmaninoff at the Rose Theater on Tuesday. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
An Intimate Concert, With Original Instruments
 The ensemble’s program of works by Haydn and Mozart on Wednesday at the New York Society for Ethical Culture was informed, earnest and lively. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
The New Yorker:  Arts & Culture
Peter Schjeldahl: "1969" at P.S. 1.
 In 1969, we were very free. I turned twenty-seven—too old to be a hippie, after having been too young to pull off being a beatnik—and was so free as to be practically useless, writing just enough to finance days abed in a tiny Sullivan Street . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT
Paul Goldberger: Jean Nouvel and the art of the façade.
 When you catch your first glimpse of 100 Eleventh Avenue, a new apartment tower in Chelsea designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, its curving façade, an abstract arrangement of windows slanting in multiple directions, looks like a gimmick. The building clatters; it jangles like a bracelet. Beside . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT
Nancy Franklin: Fox News Channel's latest blowhard.
 If you sensed something of a quiet spell about ten days ago, a lull in the usual media storm, it may have been owing to the fact that Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the airwaves for a . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT
Goings on About Town: Theatre
 class=goatTitle-->MOVIE-STAR WATTAGE Empirical evidence is mounting for the case that you can’t have a Broadway show these days without a marquee name attached. Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway début, and Liev Schreiber star in Arthur Miller’s 1955 classic, “A View . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT
Goings on About Town: The Theatre
 PageBreak --> OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE AGE OF IRON To kick off the Classic Stage Company season, Brian Kulick adapts and directs a mashup of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” and Thomas . . . Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT
All About Jazz News
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Otmaro Ruiz Announces Los Angeles Dates to Support Latest Album, "Sojourn"
 Widely considered to be one of the most important jazz musicians working today, Venezuelan pianist and composer OTMARO RUIZ is known for his unsurpassed virtuosity and versatility at the instrument, as well as for the lyricism and complexity of his compositions. A true jazz giant, he is at ease in all styles of music, from straight-ahead jazz to pop, rock, salsa, Afro-Cuban and fusion. One of the most sought-after session keyboardists in Los Angeles, Ruiz has performed in virtually every major international jazz festival and has won recognition and multiple awards for his composition and film scoring...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jazz Singer, Alison Ruble, Ends Year with Three Special Shows
 ALISON RUBLE ENDS THE YEAR WITH THREE SPECIAL SHOWS IN THE MIDWEST! Appearances at Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan, Trio's Restaurant and Jazz Club in South Bend and Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago. COME JOIN ON OF CHICAGO'S RISING STARS AT THESE INTIMATE DATES. Alison will appear as special guest at the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, Michigan on Friday, December 18th, 2009, as part of the launch of Rick Kogan's new book with photographer Charles Osgood. "Sidewalks II: Reflections of Chicago". Admission is free. RSVP's are suggested. 1- 269-756-3879 for more information...
EVENT: World Jazz Summit with Randy Weston, Cedar Walton, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris and Emilio Valdes at Ucpac on November 21
 Union County Performing Arts Center presents WORLD JAZZ SUMMIT 5 Concerts on 1 Night for 1 Low Price! featuring Randy Weston, Emilio Valdes, Cedar Walton, Stefon Harris and Lionel Loueke and Gala Pre-Performance Reception Saturday, November 21, 2009 Gala Pre-Performance Reception 4PM until 6PM Concert starts at 6PM...
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes 'For Lovers' CDs out on Dec. 22
 Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Dave Brubeck, Rosemary Clooney, Wes Montgomery and Mel Torm on such labels as Concord, Concord Jazz, Prestige and Riverside...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola December Lineup
 Tuesday-Sunday, December 1-6 Arturo O'Farrill Sextet Celebrating the CD release of Risa Negra (ZOHO) Featuring Arturo O'Farrill (piano), Jim Seeley (trumpet), David Bixler (alto saxophone) Boris Kozlov (bass), Vince Cherico (drums), Roland Guerrero (percussion). After Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, December 1-5 - The Curtis Brothers...
PlaybillArts.com
Red Hot Holiday Stomp Celebration
 As the holiday season rapidly approaches, Jazz at Lincoln Center gears up for its annual Red Hot Holiday Stomp, a New Orleans-style good ol' time in Rose Theater, Dec. 10?12. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST
The Three Faces of Patricia Racette
 The American diva tells Matt Dobkin why starring in all three operas of Puccini's Il Trittico (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi) is the ride of her life. The production opens at the Met Nov. 20. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST
Lindstrom, Diegel, Carfizzi, Petrova, Costanzo and More to Sing at Glimmerglass
 Glimmerglass Opera has announced principal casting for its 2010 summer season. The lineup includes Puccini's Tosca, Copland's The Tender Land, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and the U.S. pro stage premiere of Handel's Tolomeo. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:14:00 EST
One on One: Cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton
 A conversation with French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, who explores songs from Slavic lands with her recently released solo debut album for na?ve, Chants d'est, and is set to perform at NY's Poisson Rouge Nov. 23. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST
Hui He is Met's <I>Aida</i> in Spring 2010
 Hui He will sing the three remaining Met performances of Verdi's Aida in March and April, replacing Hasmik Papian. This marks the Shanghai-born soprano's company debut. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST
NYT > Jazz
Michael Feinstein to Lead Jazz at Lincoln Center Series
 Jazz at Lincoln Center is bringing classic American popular song into its fold with the appointment of the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein as director of its new popular music series. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Corrections
 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Dick Katz, 85, Jazzman of Many Gifts Over 6 Decades, Is Dead
 Mr. Katz was a pianist, record producer and writer whose knowledge of jazz made him a valuable presence on New York’s jazz scene for six decades. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Jazz Listings
 JAZZ. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
Historic Sounds of Newport, Newly Online
 The recorded past of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals has suddenly been thrown open, thanks to the online archive Wolfgang’s Vault. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500
NewMusicBox
A Problematic Diagnosis
 Although a great deal of music being written right now is by no means unmelodic, there's still an assumption in certain quarters of the community that contemporary music equals gnarly music. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sounds Heard: Bill Dixon&mdash;Tapestries for Small Orchestra
 by Trevor Hunter
The legendary trumpeter releases a two-disc set of new pieces on Firehouse 12. In short: this is one of the best CDs of the year. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Reaching Across the Aisle
 By Dan Visconti
I am sure there are many people whose first encounters with contemporary music were not difficult at all, but I was not one of them; that kind of wonder and excitement of new sonic possibilities kicked in only gradually for me, and it was not until I was an older teen that I had really developed a taste for the music of our own time. Thursday, November 12, 2009
The 2009 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Blog:<br> Down to the Orchestral Wire
 By Spencer Topel
Various fledgling composers will fantasize about the proverbial "break" that will propel their music, persona, and talents into the stratosphere; but the opportunities come few and far between. Thursday, November 12, 2009
Finding Yourself Elsewhere: An American Composer in Krakow
 While it is nothing new for an American composer to find himself living overseas, I've noticed that most composers (and Americans in general) have a very limited conception of "where the action is" in Europe. Wednesday, November 11, 2009
 
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