http://newmusicon.org A publication of the Center for Contemporary Opera and the American Composers Alliance Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:05:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Leonard J. Lehrman Librettist/director/teacher Stephen Wadsworth had two big debuts in NY this past fall, first at the Met, then at City Opera. At the former, he took over the staging of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov when German director Peter Stein refused to subject himself to the indignities US customs ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/20th-century-operas-in-the-21st-century-part-1/ [Continued from part 1.] by Leonard J. Lehrman About 300 operas with consciously Jewish themes are among the listings in Kenneth Jaffe’s 437-page Solo Vocal Works on Jewish Themes: A Bibliography of Jewish Composers, published this year by Scarecrow Press. A 13-year labor of love, it is highly recommended to anyone ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/20th-century-operas-in-the-21st-century-part-2/ New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs Founding Director and Conductor; The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, NY, September 25, 2010 by Barry O’Neal The pool of fine young musicians at The Juilliard School that Joel Sachs draws upon for his New Juilliard Ensemble is genuinely inspiring. Their first concert of ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/fantastical-sounds-from-near-and-far/ February 16, 2011 By Cornelius Dufallo Violinist and composer Ana Milosavjevic presented a program of violin music at Le Poisson Rouge on February 16, in celebration of her new CD, Reflections (Innova Recordings). Ms. Milosavjevic performed five recent compositions, the oldest of which dates from 2006. The small, hip venue was ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/ana-milosavjevic-at-le-poisson-rouge/ Works by Frank, Fang, Tower, and Brahms; Symphony Space, May 6, 2011. by Anne Eisenberg The stage at Symphony Space, the performing arts center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, was just as you might have expected it to be on May 6th, just before the evening performance of the Cassatt String ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/cassatt-string-quartet-ursula-oppens/ On the Cover: Don Giovanni all’inferno, Found objects/mixed media assemblage made from bed springs with other materials and artist pigments by Renzo Oliva In this Issue +++ Contributors, 4 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Cassatt String Quartet, Ursula Oppens, 6 Ana Milosavjevic at Le Poisson Rouge, 7 New Chamber Music in Paradise, 8 A Dream Fulfilled, 9 Fantastical Sounds From Near ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2011/07/21/spring-2011-issue/ Oxford University Press, 2010 by Mark Zuckerman Terry Riley’s In C (1964) is widely regarded as the seminal work in the minimalist canon. Its score is lean: one page of music and about a page and a half of performance advice. The music is a sequence of 53 modules: numbered linear ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2010/12/09/robert-carl-terry-riley%e2%80%99s-in-c/ an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, directed by William Kentridge, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Spring 2010. by Wendy Lesser The whole project started with Gogol, out of whose overcoat, according to Dostoyevsky, all other modern Russian literature emerged. He wrote his story “The Nose “ in ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2010/12/09/the-nose/ by Daniel Felsenfeld Louis Andriessen: De Staat Ensemble ACJW, Carnegie Hall, May 10, 2010 Is there an uglier or more vulgar piece of music than Louis Andriessen’s De Staat? Is there a piece of musical agitprop more relentlessly aestheto-political, more astutely tuned to all that is “wrong” in Plato? Is ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2010/12/09/fighting-the-power-and-sounding-good-doing-it/ On the Cover: Cage Variations (Noise), digitally-altered (prepared) photograph, by David Alexander In this Issue +++ Contributors, 2 Obituaries, 3 +++ Live Performance Reviews Fighting the Power and Sounding Good Doing It, 4 High Modernism on the Great Stages of New York, 6 Cutting Edge Concerts, 8 Louis and the Young Americans, ... http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2010/12/07/fall-2010-issue/