composer

Neil Rolnick - Music for Violin, Piano & Computer at EMPAC

Joe Donahue — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:35:00 +0000

Neil Rolnick, professor of music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present a concert of music for violin, piano, and computer at 7:30 PM Wednesday night at EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy. The concert features a selection of his most recent compositions from 2003 to the present.

A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart

Joe Donahue — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:35:00 +0000

Lyricist, Lorenz Hart, together with composer Richard Rodgers, wrote some of the most memorable songs ever created.

Classical Music According to Yehuda #104

Alan Chartock — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:35:00 +0000

In this week’s “Classical Music According to Yehuda,” Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss composer Darius Milhaud, hearing a performance of his “The Ox on the Roof” from a recent Close Encounters with Music concert.

"Reinventing Bach" by Paul Elie

Joe Donahue — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie tells the story of how musicians of genius have made Bach’s music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.

As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier—restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning system still in use today.

Classical Music According to Yehuda #101

Alan Chartock — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:35:00 +0000

Dr. Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss the influence of Gustav Mahler, hearing a Mahler variation on Frere Jacques.

World Premiere of Michael Gordon's Rushes at EMPAC

Joe Donahue — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:45:00 +0000

This Saturday, September 15th at 8pm, the EMPAC Concert Hall in Troy, NY will host the world premiere of Rushes by composer Michael Gordon.

New York City-based Michael Gordon, composer and founder of the iconic new music organization Bang on a Can, wraps up a recording residency with the performance of this brand new work for seven bassoons.

A Celebration of the Yaddo Festivals of American Music

Joe Donahue — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York that offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video.

Joe Iconis' The Black Suits presented by BSC's Musical Theatre Lab

Sarah LaDuke — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:10:00 +0000

The Black Suits is a musical with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and book by Iconis and Robert Emmett Maddock. The show is presented as part of Barrington Stage’s Musical Theatre Lab (William Finn, Artistic Producer). Directed by John Simpkins, with musical direction by James Sampliner, The Black Suits runs September 2 at BSC’s St. Germain Stage in Pittsfield, MA.

Tanglewood on Parade - John Williams

Alan Chartock and Joe Donahue — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:44:41 +0000

Composer, John Williams, speaks with us, humbly, about his impact on music and composing and why he loves Tanglewood. He also shares remembrances of Marvin Hamlisch.

Philip Glass

Sarah LaDuke — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:35:00 +0000

Iconic contemporary composer, Philip Glass, joins us to share his thoughts on his 75th birthday year and the benefit concert he's playing tomorrow night at the Garrison Institute.

The Garrison Institute is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization whose mission is to apply the power of contemplation to social and environmental change. Glass previously performed there at their founding in 2003.