Alex Ross's Blog, page 260

Make Music snapshots (updated)

A second-line parade at Lincoln Center.

Yale Percussion Group performs Xenakis at lunchtime.

Beethoven listens with interest.

Preparations for Persephassa on the lake.

Flutes in the Bethesda Tunnel.

 

 

Various people try out a piano supplied as part of Luke Jerram's project Play Me I'm Yours.

 

Loop 2.4.3 bangs the gongs.

 

Finally, Persephassa on the Lake. That's the great Steven Schick in the purple shirt above. What surprised and thrilled me...

Yale Xenakis

New scores at New York City Ballet

Music in Motion. The New Yorker, June 28, 2010.

Make Music eve

New York is cloudy at the moment, with storms threatening, but the forecast for tomorrow remains sunny, boding well for Make Music NY. Some events that seem promising:

10:45AM: Gabriel Kahane plays at the Astor Place Cube, in a series hosted by Joe's Pub.

12:30PM: Yale Percussion Group plays Xenakis at the Naumburg Bandshell.

12:30-2:30PM: Second-line parade from the Kaufman Center to Columbus Circle (other parades in Hudson Square and Harlem).

1PM: Mobile-phone

rendition of...

Violations

Hannah Lash, a gifted young New York composer with an ear for bracing dissonances, recently suffered a misfortune: her laptop was swiped from her car, resulting in the loss of hundreds of scores, sketches, and personal files. After feeling a justifiable burst of rage, she stepped back to examine her predicament: "I realized that I was beginning to be consumed by anger, revenge, fear,
mistrust." And she decided to make a work out of the experience. She has set up a Kickstarter account for...

Abbado to Zweig x2

Preparing the index for Listen to This, I've discovered that the alphabetical range is the same as in The Rest Is Noise: Claudio Abbado is first in line and Stefan Zweig is last. Next time, for the sake of variety, I'll try to work in references to ABBA and ZZ Top. Zweig's name surfaces courtesy of the intellectually voracious Mitsuko Uchida, who was reading Die Welt von Gestern the summer I visited Marlboro. Dame Mitsuko is about to return to her favorite stomping ground; next weekend she p...

Abbado to Zweig

Preparing the index for Listen to This, I've discovered that the alphabetical range is the same as in The Rest Is Noise: Claudio Abbado is the point of departure and Stefan Zweig is the final stop. Next time, for the sake of variety, I'll try to work in references to ABBA and ZZ Top. Zweig's name surfaces courtesy of the intellectually voracious Mitsuko Uchida, who was reading Die Welt von Gestern the summer I was at Marlboro. Dame Mitsuko is about to return to her favorite stomping ground; ...

Quotes of the day

Esa-Pekka Salonen eulogizes the late Ernest Fleischmann: "Crisis management always brought out the best in Ernest. He was
disappointed when things went too smoothly."

Proper Discord decodes the phrase "digitally remastered": "It sounds the same but much louder."

Quote of the day

Esa-Pekka Salonen eulogizes the late Ernest Fleischmann: "Crisis management always brought out the best in Ernest. He was
disappointed when things went too smoothly."

Miscellany: Xenakis on the lake, etc.

The Minnesota Orchestra, which has hit an artistic peak under Osmo Vänskä, is getting into the live-recording business. They're presently offering two free downloads, of Stravinsky's Petrushka and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.... Make Music NY happens on Monday. I have a preview at the New Yorker blog, focusing on the lakeside Xenakis happening.... Happy news for the contemporary-opera fancier: the Met has added John Adams's Nixon in China to its HD Live schedule. The broadcast is on Feb...