Helen Cronin
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN’S LA COMMEDIA
By Helen Cronin
Apparently the balalaika can only be found in hell, and the viola just doesn’t exist in the afterlife. Or at least that’s what Louis Andriessen seems to think. Thursday April 15th was the New York premiere at Carnegie Hall of the concert version of his opera La Commedia, which was based on portions [...]
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC’S CONTACT! SERIES
By Helen Cronin
For the neophyte, trying to figure out the new music scene can be both confusing and overwhelming. The many splintered traditions as well as the huge variety of music out there can make it quite intimidating to get an idea of the bigger picture. That’s why the new Contact! Series organized by Alan [...]
ULTRA VIOLET LIVE 2010
By Helen Cronin
You have to have been studying abroad on a different planet if you haven’t seen (or at least heard about) the video from 2005’s UltraViolet Live that shows a nascent Lady Gaga (alias Stefani Germanotta) performing. At 2010’s version of the all-school talent show, you could almost hear the question, “Who’s next?” 20 [...]
RANDY WOOLF
By Helen Cronin
As the last notes of Randall Woolf’s Motor City Requiem faded away, one couldn’t help but admire his clever, effective use of electronics with piano and string quartet. The samples from Motown songs and beats evoked the dynamics of a bustling city, and as they faded away, leaving only a mournful violin melody [...]
INTRIGUING CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
Sometimes you find the most intriguing things in the most unexpected places. Such was the case when I attended the NYU Symphony Orchestra concert on October 19th. Though I went to hear Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony, Julia Wolfe’s Vermeer Room was the piece I remembered. Ms. Wolfe, a professor of composition here at NYU, was inspired by [...]
EMILY EDDEY
Completing the MAP requirements is a stressful process. But completing the MAP requirements while self-producing an album? Just ask Emily Eddey, a Journalism and Music major here at NYU. “My entertainment lawyer would call me and I’d tell him that I’d have to call him back because I had to go take a Spanish [...]
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