Maximum Reich 2.0
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Osvaldo Golijov: Blending the Disparate and Ecstatic
Monday, September 26, 2011
Over Land and Time with Kronos Quartet
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
To say that Kronos Quartet has earned a reputation as a tireless champion of new works with diverse collaborators doesn't come close to doing the ensemble justice. With a 30+ year career, over 750 commissioned works and arrangements, over 45 recordings, countless awards, including a newly minted Polar Music Prize and Avery Fisher Prize, and cemented relationships with iconic composers such as Terry Riley, Henryck Gorecki, Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Osvaldo Golijov, Kronos has an unmatched run of razor-sharp, new-music credentials.
Reflections on Elgar's Cello Concerto
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Stories of Loss and Recovery
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Requiem Project: Part V
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Requiem Project: Part IV
Friday, September 09, 2011
Requiem Project: Part II
Friday, September 09, 2011
Requiem Project: Part I
Friday, September 09, 2011
Meredith Monk on New York Requiem
Thursday, September 08, 2011
David Del Tredici Performs Missing Towers
Thursday, September 08, 2011
There are only a few, fleeting moments when one feels instantly thrust in to history. How does a seasoned artist react to such ephemera? In the video below, New York composer David Del Tredici shares Gotham Glory: Missing Towers, his musical mirage of the two ghosts of 9/11 that loom over Ground Zero.
William Basinski on The Disintegration Loops
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Olivia Giovetti on Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil
Saturday, September 03, 2011
What Remains
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Eighteen years ago, with whole chunks of my address book gutted by AIDS, I attended the first Broadway production of Angels in America. I emerged from the Walter Kerr Theater, the closing scene still lingering in my mind, to face a bitterly cold February night and a sky brilliant with stars. For a moment, like Kushner’s lost housewife, I imagined every friend I had lost as a separate constellation, mapped for me, forever, in a private welkin.
Memorial Music: One Expected, One Not
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
In the days immediately after 9/11, our regular programming on WNYC 93.9 FM was suspended and we were doing wall-to-wall news coverage from NPR’s New York studio in midtown. I had been on the scene that Tuesday morning and was badly shaken by the events; and staying at home with nothing to do was definitely not helping me. So when NPR called to ask if I’d cover a live performance of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, and gather some sound from people at the church, I was relieved and grateful.
Robert Moran on Trinity Requiem
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Ambiguity of Excerpting
Monday, August 29, 2011
As we take all the generous musical suggestions you've provided and strive to channel them into a cohesive, fluid stream of music for the 9/11 weekend, we acknowledge a complicated, but inevitable, decision. We have an idea how to proceed; however, we want to hear your thoughts as to the most appropriate, respectful course of action.
To Score or Not To Score
Monday, August 29, 2011
Annie Bergen on Johannes Brahms's German Requiem
Friday, August 26, 2011
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