Miscellany for the coming of winter

Winter is coming.

On Dec. 10, the New York Philharmonic and Jeffrey Kahane will give the première of Split, a piano concerto by Andrew Norman, one of the most significant American composers in the younger age bracket. Will Robin has profiled Norman for the New York Times; I interviewed him for my Hopscotch piece.... Two days earlier, as part of the LA Phil's Green Umbrella series, three Southern California quartets — the Calder, the Formalist, and the Lyris — will play works of Cage, Johnston, Wolff, Reich, and George Brecht, alongside premières of John Luther Adams and Tristan Perich....  Two days before that, Ensemble Dal Niente, of Chicago, kicks off its Neue Musik tour with a program of Poppe, Andre, Lachenmann, Spahlinger, Johannes Kreidler, and Carola Bauckholt. Dates in Boston and New York follow.... Counterbalancing the maleness of the above, a Women, Music, Power symposium, in honor of the musicologist Suzanne G. Cusick, will unfold at Columbia on Dec. 11 and 12. A related concert by the International Contemporary Ensemble will feature music of Zosha Di Castri and David Adamcyk (writing in tandem), Natacha Diels, and Maria Stankova. Cusick is also the focus of a special issue of Women & Music.... Congratulations to the Cedar Park High School Timberwolf Band— mentioned in this post — for their victory in the UIL 5A State Marching Competition, a big Texas contest. They did it with a vibrant sequence of Mozart, Rossini, Grieg, Beethoven, and Puccini.... Hans Abrahamsen has won the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for his voice-and-orchestra piece let me tell you. As it happens, Winter & Winter will release a recording in early January, with Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony; and Hannigan will sing the work with the Cleveland Orchestra in the middle of the month (two dates at Severance, one at Carnegie Hall).