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Steve Martland (1959-2013) We're saddened to learn of the passing of English composer Steve Martland at the age of 53. Composer and Peabody faculty member Oscar Bettison was kind enough to share the following remembrance of Martland with us.

Remembering Steve Martland

by Oscar Bettison  

 

“Where do you go to college?” “The RCM.” “Oh, that place is terrible. Actually, all institutions are terrible.”   That exchange was how I met Steve Martland. I was eighteen, just finishing my first term as an undergrad at the Royal College of Music in London, and the circumstance of our meeting was the BBC Young Composer of the Year competition, in which I was a finalist. A couple of days later, ...

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 6^th. 8 pm).

What is Violin Futura? In the words of Santa Fe New Music, it is an “enthralling program [that] shows off the diversity and range of the contemporary violin.” As Piotr says, “I created the Violin Futura project because I wanted to expand the contemporary violin repertoire with pieces that are exciting to play and listen to while bringing something new and unique to the repertoire. Violin Futura is currently in its 3rd edition and I have over 40 pieces ...

To mark the worldwide bicentenary celebrations of Wagner’s birth, a set of four CDs has been recorded for the Decca label by Australian Wagner scholar, author and lecturer Peter Bassett, as an introduction to and commentary on Richard Wagner’s great cycle of four music dramas: Der Ring des Nibelungen. The recording uses extensive musical excerpts from the famous Decca recording featuring the ...

Love this post-minimal string track by Arcade Fire's Sarah Neufeld. Album out in August via Constellation.  

From the November/December issue of American Record Guide Buy here from MDT UK Buy here from Arkiv USA Buy here from Amazon UK Buy here from Amazon USA   “Ensemble Epomeo play with finesse and sensitivity, nicely capturing Krasa’s manic grotesqueries as … Continue reading →

Tonight at Westminster Choir College, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Music Joseph N. Straus will give the keynote lecture at our annual Music Scholarship Celebration. Titled "Performing Music, Performing Disability," Straus's presentation draws upon research from his recent book Extraordinary Measures: Disability in Music (Oxford University Press). There will also be student papers given by Marquese Carter, Ian Good, and Michael Bennett. 

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The 6th Annual Celebration of Westminster Student Research April 23rd at 6:30 PM Williamson Hall Westminster Choir College 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Open admission; refreshments afterwards.

From Pythagoras’ hammers and Boethius’ musica mundana to Beethoven’s Pastoral and Strauss’ Alpensinfonie, composers, philosophers, and theorists have long mused on the relationship between the natural world and organized sound. Yet it was only beginning in the 1990s – and particularly since An Inconvenient Truth helped make climate change front page news – that pressing [...]

We’re doing Stravinksy’s great ballet Petrushka this week, and there are some definite goosebump-worthy moments taking place in the first rehearsals: Jess Sindell’s scintillating solos Jeffrey Work’s balletic solo (and terrifying tritone duet with Dave Bamonte) Ja’Ttik Clark’s incredible evocation of a roaring bear So, you won’t want to miss this one!

Born in Seattle in 1938, Paul Chihara’s first musical experiences were in popular music forms. He has also worked extensively in film and theatre. But in the late 1960s and on to the 1970s, Chihara looked to be the heir or even rival to Toru Takemitsu and his style of Messiaen inspired Asian/Western fusion. A [...]