Blog Profile / Sequenza21
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Blog Post Archive
Harold Shapero, Dead at 93
Statement from the Shapero Family regarding the passing of Harold Shapero (1920-2013) Harold Shapero, an American composer, pianist and longtime Professor of Music at Brandeis University, passed peacefully in his sleep on Friday, May 17, 2013 at the age of 93, following complications with pneumonia. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on April 29, 1920, Shapero maintained [...]
Black Wagner: African-American Wagnerism and the Question of Race Revisited
Alex Ross’s next book, “Wagner–Art in the Shadow of Music” is still very much a work in progress but his keynote lecture at Wagner WorldWide 2013 at the University of South Carolina (now up on YouTube) demonstrates that he is on the trail of some fascinating, and little known, aspects of his subject’s world.
Get Schooled on New Music at OjaiU
Here’s something cool to mark on your calendar. The Ojai Music Festival is launching a free three-week online course next Wednesday, May 15, leading up to the 2013 Festival which runs June 6-9. The courses are designed to help audiences “listen smarter” and enable them to gain deeper insight into the music and programming [...]
Monday at Carnegie: Violin Futura
Some news about a hot ticket tonight from one of our regular contributors, composer Lawrence Dillon. After performing his Violin Futura program a gazillion times all over the map in the last six years, Piotr Szewczyk is bringing it to NYC (Carnegie Hall. May 6th. 8 pm). What is Violin Futura? In the words of [...]
Wanted: Major WordPress Dude (or Dudette)
We’re looking for a WordPress genius to help us update Sequenza21 by cleaning out the crawl space and attic, adding some new wiring and plumbing, attaching the garage to the main house, making the family room a more fun place to hang out and talk and to bring in a new Wolf oven and SubZero [...]
‘Pierrot’ Reborn
Last Tuesday, April 16, I trekked to Snyder Hall on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI to see a performance by the Musique 21 ensemble, an immersive ‘Theatre of Music’ Production entitled Drunken Moon. The piece was conceived and created by conductor Kevin Noe and composer Kieren MacMillan, and features the [...]
Concerto for Piano by Steven Bryant
American composer Steven Bryant has recently contributed a beautiful new piece to the piano-and-winds repertoire. Commissioned by pianist Pamela Mia Paul, Bryant’s Concerto for Piano was recorded for the GIA Wind Works label, as part of a new disc entitled Audibles. The performers are Paul and the North Texas Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro [...]
Pianist/Composer Seda Röder – Creating a New International Music Environment
To fulfill her mission: “Making contemporary music more approachable for everyone,” Turkish Pianist/Composer Seda Röder, has tapped into internationally seismic changes of accessible entrepreneurship in the arts. Röder brings her boundless...Show More Summary
Calling All coLABorabtionists: Win a Pair of Tickets for Zankel Hall on Friday Night
Who wants a pair of tickets to coLABoratory: Playing It UNsafe at Zankel Hall on Friday night? This is an ACO project described as the first and only professional research and development lab to support the creation of cutting-edge new American orchestral music through no-holds-barred experimentation. Show More Summary
Soprano and magic maker Misha Penton presents Elliot Cole’s “Selkie, a sea tale”
(Houston, TX) Houston-based soprano, writer, and impresario Misha Penton (pictured above) is back with another genre blending evening (two actually) of music for classical voice. Accompanied by pianist Kyle Evans, cellist Patrick Moore, and dancers Meg Brooker and Yelena Konetchy, Penton will present a specially staged concert of composer Elliot Cole’s Selkie, a sea tale [...]
Music of Lawrence Dillon Performed by The Atlantic Ensemble on March 25 at Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee
The Atlantic Ensemble will present Music of Lawrence Dillon on Monday, March 25 at Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall of Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The evening, part of the Nightcap Series, will begin with Dillon giving a pre-concert talk at 8:00 PM and continue with the [...]
Houston’s Liminal Space Contemporary Ensemble present The Music of David Lang
(Houston, TX) Liminal Space Contemporary Music Ensemble is continuing what has become a welcome and well-received series of innovatively staged and programmed concerts of contemporary music. Featuring the core duo of composer George Heathco on electric guitar and Luke Hubley on percussion, Liminal Space has presented concert tributes to the music of John Cage and [...]
“María” Provokes and Penetrates at Le Poisson Rouge
“Forgotten among women.” This weekend, Opera Hispánica concluded their first festival atLe Poisson Rouge with Astor Piazzolla’s “María de Buenos Aires”
Wednesday: Low and ACME at Society for Ethical Culture
Wednesday: Low and ACME at Society for Ethical Culture This week, slow core rockers Low celebrate two decades as a band with their tenth studio release, The Invisible Way (Sub Pop). The Sparhawks (Mimi and Alan) continue to weave dulcet duets and the band’s metronome seems to only go up to about 100 beats per [...]
Quintet of the Americas Presents A Celebration of Queens Composers at Flushing Branch of Queens Library on March 23
The Quintet of the Americas will present A Celebration of Queens Composers on Saturday, March 23 – 2:00 PM at the Flushing Branch of Queens Library, 41-17 Main Street in Flushing. The program will feature woodwind quintets by Beata Moon (a resident of Forest Hills) and James Cohn (who lives in Douglaston), The Stuff of [...]
Light & Sound Concerts Presents Theremin, Piano and Continuum Virtuoso Rob Schwimmer on March 15 and 17 at The Old Stone House in Brooklyn
Light & Sound Concerts presents The Unusual Universe of Rob Schwimmer, two programs featuring theremin, continuum and piano virtuoso Rob Schwimmer on Friday, March 15 at 8:00 PM and Sunday. March 17 at 3: 00 PM at The Old Stone House, Washington Park, 336 Third Street (bet. 4th & 5th Avenues) in Brooklyn, New York. [...]
Tom Johnson In Los Angeles
On Friday, February 22 the week-long 2013 residency of Tom Johnson in Los Angeles was capped off with a concert of his music at the wulf, an experimental performance space deep in the gritty heart of industrial downtown. Featured was the Los Angeles premiere of ’Clarinet Trio’ and four other works, plus the occasion was [...]
OMW – Original lifestyle in Music
Brooklyn has become a meeting of the minds between music and entrepreneurship. One of the big new players is Paola Prestini, who was recently highlighted in The New Yorker. The young “composer-impresario,” whose current project is orchestrating Oceanic Verses for its European premiere at the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this May, was recently named [...]
New York Virtuoso Singers Presents 25th Anniversary Season Concert on March 3 at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall, Featuring World Premieres of 13 Works by Major American Composers
The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present the third concert of their 25th Anniversary season on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM at Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St. (btw Broadway and Amsterdam) in Manhattan. This event, co-sponsored by Merkin Concert Hall, marks NYVS’s return [...]
A Flash Flood Between the Mountains and The Deep Blue Sea
[Ed. note: Kurt Rohde, Professor of Composition at the University of California at Davis, sent us this report on the recent Music and The Art of Migration Festival there. The weeklong series of events combined a number of approaches to the concept and practice of migration across the arts, with an emphasis on music.] Sometimes [...]