New music: Cambridge New Music Players Clerkenwell London Sinfonietta...

The Independent - London;  November 22, 1995 ;     466 words ..."Old 'new music' is dead!" It may not quite have the...trying to make the point that there is new new music that people like to listen to (to her ears, improvised, probably ethnic) and old new music (sterile, clinical, modernist) that people...

New Music Fest must make peace with its niche

Winnipeg Free Press;  February 10, 2007 ;     596 words ...MORLEY WALKER PERHAPS it's time "new music" faced the music. Practitioners of this...form need to come up with another name. "New music," we all know, does not cut it. As labels...Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's 16th annual New Music Festival. The timing couldn't be better...

PROUD OF SYRACUSE AS PLACE TO HEAR NEW MUSIC.(Editorial)(Letter to the...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 6, 2002 ;     385 words ......Gwendolyn Evans To the Editor: Some of the new music of the past century was written with...to be inaccessible. Other examples of new music are meaningful, beautiful and well worth...programming has focused on the latter kind of new music, such as John Corigliano's First Symphony...

MUSIC: Applications invited in pounds 50,000 new music award.(Features)

The Birmingham Post (England);  August 24, 2007 ;     299 words ......boundary-stretching piece of British music. The New Music Award 2008, promoted by the PRS Foundation for New Music, is inviting applications from individual...helping to create a mould-breaking piece of new music by a musician or musicians living and...

New music festival kicks off Monday

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 13, 1986 ;     633 words ......it started in the summer of 1982, with New Music America's extravaganza of avant-garde...Orchestra Hall. Organized by the national New Music America group and sponsored locally by...good to waste, some of them decided, so New Music Chicago was launched in 1983. The weeklong...

Russia's new music: Poverty and wealth

International Herald Tribune;  April 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the financial ''poverty'' that afflicts new music in Russia and, specifically, Moscow Forum...the Moscow Conservatory's Studio for New Music Ensemble, Igor Dronov, conductor, holds its own with the best such groups.New music in Russia could indeed use an angel in...

New Music Seminar puts heads together // Movers and shakers discuss the...

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 10, 1986 ;     700+ words ......days in Manhattan, the seventh annual New Music Seminar played host to some 6,000 attendees...than it answered. Like, what is this "new music," anyway? The distinctions were easier...sacred. Or salable. Old music was fat. New music was hungry and angry. Old music was polished...

New Music Symposium challenges performers/ Artists value chance to talk to...

The Gazette;  July 12, 2002 ;     486 words ......attracting performers to the Colorado College New Music Symposium. "They just flock over to play...by Rainer Maria Rilke," the focus on new music began when he was a singer with the New...Lee. She says the rewards of playing new music far outweigh the trouble it takes to...

New Music Group turns 20, and is still going strong

Daily Breeze;  January 31, 2002 ;     667 words ...New Music Group turns 20, and is still going strong...orchestra support The Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, it has done so for 20 years, despite...School's Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, the New Music Group (which is presented as "The GreenUmbrella...

SO WHAT! Santa Fe New Music shows us why we should care about new...

Santa Fe Reporter;  September 28, 2004 ;     415 words ...New Music, or modern classical music, has a reputation of being cerebral...concert of the four-day Santa Fe International Festival of New Music, So will join artists from Santa Fe New Music to liberate classical music a bit from its academic conventions...

NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE FROM UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WILL PERFORM AT UI ON...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ......issued the following news release: The New Music Ensemble (NME) from the University of...of a rotating tour that will take the new music ensembles from the UI, the University...all three campuses. The UI Center for New Music has already appeared in Minneapolis and...

At 30, ensemble continues new music mission

Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  June 29, 2006 ;     659 words ...The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble likes to live on the edge...beautiful. Noe turned to composer and New Music Ensemble board member Kieren MacMillan...risk-taking is an essential component of any new music group. Unlike symphonies and opera...

Chicago is alive with sound of new music

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 10, 1988 ;     700+ words ......turning out to be an unofficially proclaimed "New Music Month" in Chicago. Two festivals of new music are opening this week, and concerts are...will launch its three-concert "Festival of New Music" featuring the Kronos Quartet at 7:30 p...

ICEFest 2007 premieres cool new music: ICEFest 2007 premieres cool new...

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  September 21, 2007 ;     554 words ......Von Rhein Tribune Music Critic Sep. 21--New music has broken free of the stylistic fetters...variety. ICE's chief forum has been the new music festivals known as ICEFests, that the...members. We've always maintained that new music belongs to everyone and everywhere, says...

Goal of Canyonlands ensemble is rich assortment of new music

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  March 30, 2003 ;     493 words ......might be reluctant to attend a concert of new music. "I tell people to try it and find out...the founder and director of Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, and the group will give a concert...driven by aesthetic variety. A lot of new music groups are landlocked and only interested...