Joan Tower
World premiere of Joan Tower’s “A New Day”. Today, Sunday 25 July, the world premiere of A New Day, the cello concerto written by the American composer Joan Tower (New Rochelle, New York, 1938) for Alisa Weilerstein (Rochester, New York, 1982) and conducted by the Canadian Peter Oundjian (Toronto, 1955),…
Joan Magrané
© Photograph by Daniel Campbell, downloaded from the Joan Magrané website. Joan Magrané premieres his “Mass for 6 voices” The Spanish composer Joan Magrané (Reus, 1988) premiered the complete version of his Mass for six voices on 18 July in Girona Cathedral, a commission from the Festival Noches de Clásica de…
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier turns 90. On Friday 14 May the American composer Alvin Lucier (Nashua, New Hampshire) turns ninety. To mark the occasion, The ISSUE Project Room – the alternative cultural space in Brooklyn known as “little Carnegie” – has organised a commemorative programme that will begin at 2 a.m. Spanish…
György Ligeti
Tribute to György Ligeti in Zurich. In 1971, Pierre Boulez declared that the future of opera lay in the destruction of all the opera houses in the world. In the same year, the Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel began the process of destruction on his own with his work Staatstheater, considered…
Raquel García Tomás
Raquel G. Tomás premieres at the Teatro Real. A year ago now, the composer Raquel García Tomás was awarded the 2017 El Ojo Crítico en Música Clásica Prize by Radio Nacional de España. A prize that is not awarded for a specific work, but for a career and for “the…
Jack Perla
New performances of “An American Dream”. Premiered in August 2015 at Seattle Opera, An American Dream is American composer Jack Perla‘s twelfth (and penultimate so far) chamber opera, a dramatic work set in World War II that posed, as its starting point, a question: “If you had to leave your…
Philip Glass
Upcoming premiere of Glass’s “12th Symphony”. David Bowie lived in Berlin between 1976 and 1979, during which time he composed his three most experimental albums: Low, Heroes and Lodger. The enigmatic personality of these albums inspired the American Philip Glass to create his first symphony, Low, in 1992, followed four…
Ellen Reid
Ellen Reid premieres «p r i s m», her first opera. Young American composer Ellen Reid (Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1983) premiered her opera p r i s m, a complex composition addressing the trauma of surviving rape, a situation experienced by both Reid and playwright Roxie Perkins, at the Los…
Benjamin Britten
El «Réquiem de guerra» de Britten, en la ENO. Pacifista hasta el deshonor –Benjamin Britten, que vivió de niño los horrores de la Primera Guerra Mundial, solicitó ser declarado objetor de conciencia para no intervenir en la Segunda e, incluso, abandonó el Reino Unido para instalarse en los Estados Unidos…
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson: a whole week in Madrid. The multifaceted American artist Laurie Anderson (Glen Ellyn, Illinois, 1947) has visited Madrid on several occasions. Always with music as her banner… And we have always missed her other facets, as interesting as her music. But this month Laurie will give a concert…
Keijo Saariaho
Premiere at the Teatro Real by Keijo Saariaho. Keijo Saariaho (Helsinki, 1952) is one of the most outstanding figures on the contemporary international music scene. Trained in integral serialism, she gradually moved away from the dogmatism of the dominant genre in international auditoriums during the second half of the 20th…
Nico Muhly
Muhly premieres his opera “Marnie” at the MET. October 10, the Met the world’s most important opera house (with the exception of La Scala in Milan), with its seating capacity of almost four thousand, premiered Marnie, the second opera by the American composer Nico Muhly (Randolph, Vermont, 1981). Marnie, which…