Miscellany

The LA-based composer-violinist Andrew McIntosh will be the subject of one of Miller Theatre's Pop-Up Concerts tomorrow at 6pm. The fine folk of Yarn/Wire will present two world premieres — Five Songs and We See the Flying Bird — as well as the third movement of Hyenas in the Temple of Pleasure, alongside works of Marc Sabat / Stefan Bartling and Wolfgang von Schweinitz. Tickets are free.... Yarn/Wire will return to Miller in December for a Composer Portrait of Zosha Di Castri.... McIntosh's Yelling into the Wind will be featured on the LA Phil's Noon to Midnight marathon on Oct. 1; the program brings a raft of premieres (including Kate Soper's  Wallace Stevens-based The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract), a bevy of LA-based ensembles, and thirteen pianists playing Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux .... Approaching in Chicago: the massive Ear Taxi festival (Oct. 5-10), featuring such local luminaries as Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, and Third Coast Percussion. There will be no fewer than fifty-four world premières.... Nicholas Hopkins, at his Subtilior music-engraving site, has published two parts of a thoroughgoing analysis of Boulez's Tombeau, the final section of Pli selon pli. One awaits the third installment with interest.... On Oct. 1 the sonostream platform will host a live stream of the Theater Basel production of Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht.... Worth a read: Daniel Brandes's essay “Composing Sabbath Spaces: Thoughts and Reflections on Making Quiet Music.”