Music Review | American Composers Orchestra : Hybrid Doesnât Always Mean Synthesis
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What was presented here served the best interests of no one, least of all the composers whose works were so poorly represented.
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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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A few composers are seeing new possibilities for percussion concertos. At least four such pieces are scheduled in the US over the next month.
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Composers who are also active conductors gain direct experience with a wide array of music, especially if they are as adventurous as Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Early user reviews of IBM&#39;s new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM&#39;s ears.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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Logic Pro 7, the next major release of the award-winning professional music creation and audio production software, will change the way musicians and audio engineers worldwide compose, record, edit and mix music in any studio environment. In addition to more than 100 workflow enhancements, breakthrough new software instruments, new mastering plug-ins and support for Apple Loops, Logic Pro 7 also debuts distributed audio processing, a revolutionary technology which allows audio pros to tap into a virtually unlimited number of Macs to expand available Digital Signal Processing (DSP) power. [Sep 29]
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Music directors of major orchestras donÂt usually get to name their successors, but Lorin Maazel of the New York Philharmonic has a suggestion.
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As the powers that be in the orchestra world search for new models for the future, the Orchestra of St. Luke's presents an interesting alternative right under everyone's nose.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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The Seattle Symphony Orchestraâs recent history serves as a cautionary tale on how, in an artistic hothouse, a tangle of emotion and politics can veer out of control and take on a life of its own.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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Adapting Philip Glass' Barbarians opera for its U.S. debut requires overcoming significant technological limitations. By Theresa Everline.
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It looked like a glaring snub when Jonny Greenwood's music for "There Will Be Blood" wasn't among the five Academy Award nominees for best original score.
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After almost a decade, the famed music composer is back doing what he does best -- making beautiful music.
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Usually vocals dominate film music with instrumentals as components for accompaniment and embellishment but Anjathey is an exception -- the stress here is more on instrumental music rather than vocals with four immaculate numbers in western style stealing the show with their high emotional voltage.
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It's not hip-hop. It's blip-pop. That's what the Gameboyzz Orchestra Project calls the sounds it squeezes out of a half dozen Game Boy consoles. [Missing Links]