Archive for: June 2010

This coming week is a really interesting one.  Four performances, all very different.

Tomorrow (Monday, 6/21), Mantra Percussion is performing if when without itself, for 3 drumsets and (wii-controlled) electronics as part of the annual Make Music NY festival (the performance …

I am now feeling as though I was a bit hasty in yesterday’s criticism of Kyle Gann’s post, “Almost all is Vanity”. I was angry when I read it because it seemed to me that here was …

My wife just walked in and saw the title of this post as I working on it, and figured I was writing about our almost-two-year-old, busy whining in the next room about matters large and small.  Actually, though, I’m writing …

Lawrence Dillon recently put up this post on Sequenza 21.  It’s a short, but powerful assessment of the state of the orchestra today.  I am in the beginning stages of a new work for orchestra, and Dillon’s piece definitely …