The Carbon Copy Building is an opera composed by committee; Bang on a Can members Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe combined their efforts on the music, whereas the text, and the lavishly illustrated hardcover booklet, is the work of graphic novelist Ben Katchor. Katchor's "picture stories" have graced the pages of Metropolis Magazine ...
New York-based composer David Lang was associated with the ensemble Bang on a Can, and the pieces on this album share an orientation toward percussion as well as clear but unconventional use of tonal relationships. The highlight for many will be the first work on the program, Pierced, written in 2007. It's a concerto of sorts, with a trio of cello ...
Choreographer Edouard Locke presented Gavin Bryars with the challenge of creating a new ballet incorporating selections from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, but arranged for a chamber ensemble and filtered through a contemporary artistic sensibility. Bryars responded with a series of movements that are recognizably derived from ...
The New Century Saxophone Quartet has done a lot to shake up the stereotypes associated the instrument; the group has recorded a complete Art of the Fugue, for instance, and has commissioned numerous leading composers to broaden the repertoire for saxophone quartets. In this, their second album of commissioned works, they demonstrate the ...
This recital of contemporary piano music is notable for its lack of any biographical material whatsoever, about either the composers or the pianist. Presumably pianist Danny Holt wants the music, apparently all American, to speak for itself. For the most part, it does. Much of it is representational, and even if you might not always guess the ...
Since 1921, the American Academy in Rome -- founded in 1894 and chartered by an act of the United States Congress in 1905 -- has offered an annual fellowship and two residencies to American composers to live and study in Rome for one year. By the time Bridge's four-CD compilation Americans in Rome is offered, 124 such positions have been offered ...
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