Fogbound hummingbird miscellany

The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2015-16 season. The principal news is that Esa-Pekka Salonen is beginning a term as composer-in-residence, presiding over a Messiaen series in March and introducing a new large-scale orchestral piece in June, as part of the second edition of the Biennial. Also notable: the première of an Andrew Norman piano concerto on Dec. 10.... The Detroit Symphony has announced a raft of premières for 2015-16: Mohammed Fairouz, Gabriela Lena Frank, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tod Machover, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Leonard Slatkin.... Vulnicura, the new album by Björk, has appeared a couple of months ahead of schedule. She will have a retrospective at MoMA in March. Ann Powers has an overnight review.... The oboe's James Austin Smith has a new disc entitled Distance; he will give a related concert at Tenri on Jan. 27 ... Mozart in the Jungle, the classical-music show on Amazon, has inevitably stirred critical debate: Zachary Woolfe is pro, Anne Midgette is con.... Rebecca Saunders has received the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize. In Februrary, Munich's Musica Viva will give the first performance of her trumpet concerto, with Marco Blaauw as soloist.... A happy sight: Allan Kozinn, late of the New York Times, writing about classical music, at length, in the Wall Street Journal. The topic is the New Music Gathering in San Francisco.