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Archive for March 3rd, 2008

Approaching New Music One Piece at a Time

Posted in Chicago, IL on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »

If you are anything like me, new music, whether using the moniker of modern or contemporary, isn’t your cup of tea. Given the centuries of music to choose from, it becomes all too easy to just rely on the tried and true and leave music being created today for others to sort through. The test [...]

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Chicago’s Wild Ride Continues…

Posted in Chicago, IL on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »

I have just received the subscriber guide for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2008/09 year, and just like in previous years, diversity of repertoire and faces, is the name of the game. Under the dual leadership of Bernard Haitink and Pierre Boulez, with the help of a long list of star studded guest conductors, Chicago has [...]

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Theater of Needless Talents

Posted in Seattle, WA on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

As I was sitting in the Spectrum Dance Theater listening to Erwin Schulhoff’s morose and brilliant music fill the space and watching Spectrum’s dancers alternate between violent, graceful, and even comic dance episodes I began wondering about the Holocaust and why, Seattle’s artists seem more interested than most in Holocaust era art and performance.
There doesn’t [...]

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