“Organ²/ASLSP”, twenty years of performance. The world’s longest piece of music celebrated its first twenty years of performance last Sunday, 5 September. It is John…
Exhibition in homage to Juan Hidalgo. The Spanish artist Juan Hidalgo (1927-2018), co-founder of the artistic group Zaj and winner of the National Prize for…
“Death of Classical” concerts resume. The catacombs of Historic Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn is one of the unusual venues that music promoter (and rock…
Premiere of a quartet by Matteo Fargion. Tomorrow, Saturday, the world premiere of the string quartet No. 5, The Nobby Saddy Quartet, by Italian composer…
“A Common Time”, by Chase Spruill. Philip Glass: A Common Time, the new album by the Californian violinist Charles “Chase” Spruill IV, published by Orange…
Marc Grey’s “Birds in the Moon” comes to L. A. After the world premiere in New York last May of the chamber opera Birds in…
«Etudes pour Piano», by Cathy Krier. There was a time, around the 1960s, when György Ligeti, Hungarian by birth and naturalised Austrian, was one of…
Mikis Theodorakis dies at the age of 96. Mikis Theodorakis, the most famous of Greek contemporary composers, died today, Thursday, in Athens, aged 96. According…
George Lewis’s “Minds in Flux” on the BBC. The world premiere of Minds in Flux by the American composer George E. Lewis took place at the…
“A Kind of Mirror”, by Miki Sawada. The Japanese classical pianist Miki Sawada – with a repertoire that includes Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Gabriel Fauré…