100 Waltzes for John Cage Kevin James’ homage will be performed twice this week. To learn more about it, check out Kevin’s interview… From August 21 through 23, 7:30 PM Tickets are available on BrownPaperTickets: General $20, Students, Seniors $10 Kevin James/The [kāj] ensemble at The DiMenna Center Mary Flagler Cary Hall (lower level) ..:: Website [...]
When I went to visit Earle at his home in Rye, we had lunch together with Susan. She served a delicious homemade soup. Afterward, Earle showed me their art pieces. It was not so much a collection as a series of masterworks, many of which had been given to him off the floor of the [...]
Music I’m Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You Listen and that might be somewhat under the radar. To read more about why I felt it necessary to do this, please see my original post in the series. This particular CD I found via [...]
After receiving the Fromm commission, I was invited to attend Paul Fromm’s 80th birthday celebration. At 25, I was the youngest to receive this commission and one of the last while Mr Fromm was alive. Paul Fromm was a refined gentleman – very old school. He built a successful wine and spirits distribution company in [...]
From August 17 to August 30, at Gallery One Twenty Eight (128 Rivington between Essex and Ludlow, New York, NY 10002) the Nouveau Classical Project will be presenting In & Around C, a participatory music and art installation. We asked 5 questions to Mad Mohre, the artist behind the installation… What is In & Around C? It’s [...]
Whenever the key parts of a sentence are the words “Brian Eno” and “new music ensemble,” I cringe a little. Usually, the sentence looks something like this – “New music ensemble X gives a whirlwind rendition of Eno’s masterwork Y” – and no matter what Eno album it is, it’s called a “masterwork” and the [...]
Do you consider yourself coming from avant-rock, folk, classical, or it really doesn’t matter? I feel like my music is informed by all kinds of styles and traditions. I’m really interested in the approaches and techniques that make each idiom unique, the specifics of posture that dictate aesthetics. I’m also excited to discovery similarities–the magical [...]
Natasha Paremski and Philippe Quint Pianist Natasha Paremski and violinist Philippe Quint team up for a night at Le Poisson Rouge. The program includes the music of Prokofiev, Balakirev, Piazzolla, and the New York premiere of Fred Hersch’s “Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky”. Monday, July 30 at 7:30 PM Tickets advance $15, day of show [...]
Compose a constellation of sound and then allow the conductor to change the order of the constellation at each performance – a brilliant idea that is at the heart of Available Forms I and II. There is no fixed ‘through-line’; it is different at each performance. I have been deeply influenced by this approach when [...]
Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the string quartet Ethel has grown to become a powerful force in new music, premiering over fifty new works in the last three years alone. Incorporating amplification and improvisation into their performances, Ethel’s style is infused with traces of jazz and rock and roll, culminating in a unique [...]