Miscellany

WasteLAnd, the LA-based new-music series, makes a virtual return on Jan. 29 with the premiere of Davíð Brynjar Franzson's evening-length voice fragments, featuring soprano Stephanie Aston .... On the same day, the Berlin Philharmonic will introduce CATAMORPHOSIS, a new piece by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.... Tyshawn Sorey, recently the focus of a brilliant New York Times Magazine profile by Adam Shatz, has a new vocal piece called Save the Boys, which Opera Philadelphia will introduce on Feb. 12, with John Holiday singing. ... No Mozart or Beethoven, lots of Chabrier, Schreker, and Robert Simpson: John Ashbery's CD collection, circa 2008.... A Joshua Rosenblum review in Opera News led me to Tulsa Opera's wonderfully quirky baseball-diamond production of Rigoletto.... It was a great honor to sit for an epic-length Do the Math interview with Ethan Iverson. Don't miss Ethan's survey of the Wagnerian Piano.... The composer Michael Hersch has uploaded a video of his ten-hour piece sew me into a shroud of leaves, as heard at the Wien Modern in Nov. 2019.... At 6:55 in this clip, Fred Rogers sings Britten's Billy Budd (very briefly). He's discussing his work as floor manager for the NBC Opera Theatre.