It stretches back to Russian film and theatre-maker Sergei Eisenstein's "theatre of attractions" in the 1920s, and connects with American composer and performance-maker John Cage's aims from the 1950s: "to get it so that people realise that they themselves are doing their experience and that it's not being done to them".
Mr. Gal was the last of three composers whose works were included in an installment of the Merkin Concert Hall's "Zoom: Composers Close Up" series, which mixes interviews (loosely conducted by Michael Gordon, the hall's resident composer) and performances in the style of Carnegie Hall's "Making Music" and WNYC's "New Sounds Live" (also usually held at Merkin).
"I have never felt so acutely a lack of a counterculture," said Laurie Anderson, the composer, singer and performance artist.
8 p.m. Also tomorrow at 8 p.m. "LOGIC OF THE BIRDS," with Shirin Neshat, a visual artist and filmmaker; Sussan Deyhim, a composer, singer and performance artist; Shoja Azari, a writer and filmmaker and Ghasam Ebrahimian, a filmmaker and cinematographer.
And with a few good genre-specific apps and a few dollars, classical music aficionados can stay connected to their favorite composers and performances, and discover new ones they might not find elsewhere.
"One of our early influences and inspirations for this project is actually a perfect example of this phenomenon (though similar examples extend across almost every industry sector)—the work of Scottish cello player, composer and digital performance pioneer Peter Gregson".
Familiarize yourself with the music, composer, and basic performance histories of the most famous operas.
Familiarize yourself with the music, composer, and basic performance histories of the most famous operas.. Determine your vocal range.
But the works are presented in three concerts intended to show "Bartok's debt to the human voice," in Ms. Tomer's words, variously including a work by the Hungarian composer Peter Eotvos and performances by David Longstreth, the founder of the rock band Dirty Projectors, and the innovative Czech vocalist, violinist and composer Iva Bittova.
