This is the second post in this month’s edition of The Listening Room, our discussion of music that composer Judd Greenstein finds meaningful, inspiring, or just plain good. For earlier Listening Room posts, click here, and add your own insights … Continue reading →
It’s time for this month’s edition of The Listening Room, in which our MicroCommission composer Judd Greenstein selects a recording he loves and invites you to have a conversation about it. We’re going to change things up a little this … Continue reading →
When I was in graduate school at Yale, much of my time studying composition was spent with Ezra Laderman, the elder statesman of the composition faculty and one of the most open-minded composers that they’ve ever had at that institution. … Continue reading →
Later this month, (specifically, the week of January 23,) we’ll be kicking off another installment of The Listening Room, a project we launched with Judd here on the blog in November. Basically, TLR is like a book club, only with … Continue reading →
Happy New Year, all! I’m emerging from my holiday coma just in time for what is shaping up to be possibly the busiest month of the 2011-12 season. The orchestra jumps back into what some of us like to call … Continue reading →
This is the second of two posts kicking off the musical conversation we’re calling The Listening Room. If this is the first you’ve heard of it, click here to get caught up. Yesterday, Judd and I discussed the first work … Continue reading →
As previously announced, today marks the kickoff of a blog-based project we’re calling The Listening Room. It’s sort of a like a musical book club, and here’s how it works: over the next few months, we’ll announce specific recordings that … Continue reading →
Sarah and I are already well into the planning process for our next set of ItC concerts in late January, and early this week, we reach the critical stage when everything needs to be firmed up and final, at least … Continue reading →
First of all, big thanks to everyone who came to our Inside the Classics concerts this past weekend! I was particularly nervous about this show, partly because I had to play a solo viola work in front of my MN … Continue reading →
It’s that time of the fall again – our first Inside the Classics concert of the season goes up this Friday and Saturday night (which you could probably have predicted by the fact that this blog went utterly silent more … Continue reading →
