It is admirable and necessary that foundations of one kind or other are helping to commit living composers to compact disc.
Walt Disney Studios called Glass to dissuade him, but by then the composer was committed.
The composer, who committed suicide in 1970, would surely have been gratified that the Lincoln Center Festival has mounted a stunning production, directed by David Pountney.
Until recently, the prevailing wisdom was that far from dying of cholera in 1893, the 53-year-old composer had committed suicide to avert publicity about his sexual activities.
Not so long ago Pierre Boulez was regarded by many concertgoers as the very symbol of intractable modernism, a composer so committed to Serialism that he applied its ordering techniques not only to pitches, but also to dynamics, note lengths and other compositional elements.
Mr. Graham, who is admirably committed to living American composers, began with music by John Musto.
The global scope of the Cage celebrations has surprised even the composer's most committed admirers.
The story is nominally about a Russian writer's research into the life of the 18th-century Russian composer, Maxim Berezovsky, who committed suicide after being recalled to Russia from Italy.
"I'm committed to presenting them the way composers wrote them," Ms. Zambello said.
