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Yellow Barn Music Festival Features Music of Lerdahl, Pintscher, and Lei Liang's Verge
Jun. 25, 2013Lei Liang’s Verge is the centerpiece of Yellow Barn Music Festival’s season finale concert on August 3. Written for 18 solo strings, Verge was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic …
European Premiere of Harry Partch’s Delusion of the Fury at the Ruhrtriennale
Jun. 25, 2013By the time Harry Partch composed Delusion of the Fury, the great experimenter and tonal explorer had fully developed his highly differentiated scale system and designed specialized, unconventional instruments …
Matthias Pintscher’s festival travels this summer take him to Santa Barbara and Jackson (WY) to conduct performances of his recent orchestral works Bereshit and Chute d’Etoiles, respectively. On July …
Tanglewood Features Nancarrow, Ligeti, and US Concert Premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin
Jun. 25, 2013The venerable Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music returns this summer, August 8 through 12, with a five-day infusion of the sounds of 20th and 21st-century new music luminaries into the …
Gerard Schwarz and the Eastern Music Festival Present Robert Beaser’s Ground “O”
Jun. 25, 2013On July 6, the Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, NC) and Music Director Gerard Schwarz present Robert Beaser’s Ground “O.” Premiered in 2011, Ground “O” was commissioned by the Seattle …
Lincoln Center Festival Presents New York Premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Matsukaze
Jun. 25, 2013Fresh off its US premiere performances at Spoleto Festival USA, Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze opens at the Lincoln Center Festival on July 18. The Spoleto Festival’s production, directed by Chen …
Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, More Timely Than Ever
Jun. 04, 2013“Strong social satire and even stronger social medicine,” wrote the Los Angeles Times of Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Los Angeles Opera in 2007, shortly …
Visit Schott/EAM at the League of American Orchestras Conference in St. Louis
Jun. 04, 2013We look forward to seeing all of our friends and colleagues at the annual League of American Orchestras Conference, June 18-20, in St. Louis. Schott/EAM is exhibiting and we look …
Orchestra of the Swan Premieres Huw Watkins's Little Symphony
Jun. 03, 2013The Orchestra of the Swan (UK) concludes its season and its Spring Sounds series with the world premiere of Huw Watkins’s new work for string orchestra, Little Symphony, on …
Wolfgang Rihm’s A Tribute Premieres with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder
Jun. 03, 2013The Hallé Orchestra presents the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s new work for orchestra, A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII), as part of the Aldeburgh Festival this month. The …