Miscellany

Anna Clyne sits for her Portrait Concert at Miller Theatre this Thursday. Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim profiles her in the New York Times.... At NewMusicBox, Rob Deemer solicits thoughts on the place of new music in an increasingly clickbait-driven media culture.... Alan Gilbert's Royal Philharmonic Society lecture is worth a read. The NY Phil's London concerts have been winning strong reviews; as Sedge Clark points out, the orchestra's European tour programs are unusually varied....Tomorrow night at LA's Zipper Hall, the ever-formidable Gloria Cheng gives a recital under the rubric Lyric / Modern, playing works of Ingram Marshall, Karen Tanaka, Eric Nathan, Steven Stucky (the world première of his Sonata), Brett Dean, Unsuk Chin, Boulez, and Jonathan Harvey.... Cheng will also take part in a typically arresting Jacaranda program on April 25, one that serves up late-Soviet-period works of Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt, with Prokofiev to boot.... The violinist Linus Roth has founded the International Mieczysław Weinberg Society.... The composer and pianist Jessica Krash tells a sad story of drastic cuts to adjunct music teaching at George Washington University, in Washington DC. Replies from the administration, rich in acronyms, platitudes, and euphemisms, fail to banish the impression that GWU is showing needless cruelty.