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Comment on Winner Takes All by Requiem for a Tweet • VAN Magazine

Requiem for a Tweet • VAN Magazine — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:58:53 +0000

[…] The opera ideas based on viral “true” stories; the operas canceled due to mean tweets. Igor Levit’s career as a political pundit. Tweet Seats. The uncountable good performances, albums, compositions, and articles completely […]

Comment on On Quitting by Requiem for a Tweet • VAN Magazine

Requiem for a Tweet • VAN Magazine — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:58:35 +0000

[…] day to procrastinate, then parlay the likes into attention for your real stuff. You could explain why you quit music. You could do a dramatic reading of Khatia Buniatishvili’s biography, and hundreds of people […]

Comment on Cherish the Quiet by In review: Valentin Silvestrov's "Maidan 2014"

In review: Valentin Silvestrov's "Maidan 2014" — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:29:26 +0000

[…] European Union, and ended in February 2014 just days after Russia invaded Crimea), I imagine that Valentin Silvestrov was experiencing a similar sense of synchronicity as he watched the Revolution of Dignity play out, […]

Comment on How Things Align by The Best is Noise • VAN Magazine

The Best is Noise • VAN Magazine — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:16:23 +0000

[…] value alone, “Inhale/Exhale”—a collaboration between composer/guitarist/Pulitzer laureate Raven Chacon, percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, and bassist Carlos Santistevan—may suggest a neural […]

Comment on Music, in Theory by Music in the Background • VAN Magazine

Music in the Background • VAN Magazine — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:28:00 +0000

[…] against the idea that Schenker’s racism informed his musical theories. As Olivia Giovetti and I noted at the time, the 12th issue of the JSS was criticized for “the quality of the responses,” which […]

Comment on A Gérard Grisey Playlist by Targeted Melodies • VAN Magazine

Targeted Melodies • VAN Magazine — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:59:08 +0000

[…] to microtonality influenced by the composers who came to it from the Western classical tradition—Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail, Ben Johnston, Georg Friedrich Haas—or did it grow only out of the Indian […]

Comment on A Trans Composers Playlist by Unusual and often terrifying: Makrokosmos 8 – makrokosmos project

Unusual and often terrifying: Makrokosmos 8 – makrokosmos project — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:09:55 +0000

[…] cool,” which it definitely was. It’s also cool to hear a trans composer–there are many out there and they don’t get enough […]

Comment on Title Change by The Treachery of Images • VAN Magazine

The Treachery of Images • VAN Magazine — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:55:40 +0000

[…] ‘It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,’ said Met General Manager Peter Gelb. ‘Anna is one of the greatest singers in Met history, but with Putin killing innocent victims […]

Comment on Shush Money by 19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine

19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:53:59 +0000

[…] James Levine, Gelb denied that the company had ever been aware of Levine’s alleged behavior. A Met investigation of Levine later found incidents stretching back to the 1970s. (The conductor and the company later reached a […]

Comment on Artistic Personas by 19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine

19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:53:42 +0000

[…] agents are finding time for long term strategizing. Besides leading the company through the crisis, Jasper Parrott is currently learning Japanese. He is encouraging his musicians “to work on their own art, take […]