All contemporary-composition Items

15 Questions to Duo46 "Wondering about the 4 and 6? What does it mean?" Matt Gould and his congenial partner Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould oracled ...

Osvaldo Golijov: Composes with Francis Ford Coppola Only shortly after the announcement that director Francis Ford Coppola had asked contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov to write the score ...

New Albion Festival: Contemporary Compositions at Bard College Summerscape New Albion Records are once again putting the finishing touch to their annual celebration of contemporary composition, as their “festival ...

Giya Kancheli: Little Imber on ECM ECM Records are honouring the work of Giya Kancheli. Regulary refered to as the greatest living Georgian composer, Kanchelli has ...

Peteris Vasks: Composer and Sinfonietta Riga deplore destruction The star of Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is continuing to rise. After a recent release with Finish record company Ondine, ...

CD Feature/ Jonty Harrison: "Environs" A familar ring: 21st century programmatic musique concrete.

Interview with Laurie Spiegel Laurie Spiegel can still vividly recall the first time she saw a Synthesizer. The year's 1969, she's on Bleeker Street ...

15 Questions to Maile Colbert Nietzsche may have had his points, but Maile Colbert is not afraid of his apocalyptic philosophies. A world without music ...

Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for Turntable rocks the RSNO The grandson of one of the 20th century’s eminent composers, Sergei Prokofiev, is due to take classical music into the ...

Imagining the Future Complete control: Jerry Gerber writes grand-scale scores for virtual orchestras.

15 Questions to Johannes Maria Staud Contemporary composers often have to deal with an image of grumpy young man feeding on a diet of too much ...

15 Questions to Pedro Carneiro When "Improbable Transgressions" was released in 2007, the only reason it was not received as a sensation was Pedro Carneiro ...

CD Feature/ Keith Kramer: "Casual Dualism" Repeated rhythmical patterns & the art of arrangement: Kramer has not made things easy for himself.

CD Feature/ Prism Quartet: "William Albright: Music for Saxophones" Towards a satisfying explanation: Poking in open wounds with a broken heart.

CD Feature/ Erik Satie & Mike Svoboda: "Phonométrie" Gradually isolates certain aspects of Satie’s pieces: Chanson-style pieces and avantgardistic experiments.