Tag: contemporary classical music
New In Music This Week: November 7th
Gautier Capuçon's "Gaïa" and Aaron Parks' "By All Means!!" are two of this week's selections
Tim Corpus Leads the Third Ear Taxi Festival
Success isn't ticket sales. Success is that it happens.
TOP 12 of 2024: TIMO ANDRES
A new record, a world premiere work and a celebration of Philip Glass all in one week last spring.
Composer/Pianist Timo Andres Is Having a Week
"I've always felt myself to be specifically an American composer."
Composer Jennifer Higdon Lives in the Air of Ideas
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
Composer Anna Thorvalsdottir Is Optimistic
"The job of a composer is a lot more complicated than only writing music."
David Chalmin Introduces Dream House Quartet
"What I like in music is where something magical happens and where there is soul and a life behind that's never going to be predictable."
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein Juxtaposes Bach…
"I just wanted people to experience this music in a primal and hypnotic way. Kind of going back to what made us fall in love with music in the first place."
Gabriel Kahane Gets Political
"Trying to open people's hearts feels more politically useful than trying to convince people of something."
John Adams Revisits an Old Friend
"In some ways it's the most personal piece of mine because of that resonance with the land and with the history."