Thank goodness for Muhammad Ali; he's the subject of "The Sweet Science Suite," a tribute work presented at the Guggenheim Museum (Nov. 13-14) by the radical jazz composer Fred Ho, which also features choreography (inspired by boxing, hip-hop, martial arts, and modern dance) by Christal Brown.
Composers Recordings, which also styles itself CRI, put out dozens of landmark recordings of Elliott Carter, Roger Sessions, Ralph Shapey and other major composers, and also championed American mavericks, like Wallingford Riegger, Virgil Thomson and David Del Tredici.
But if Jenkins could subvert his instrument's traditional elegance with a rough, percussive bowing attack and an abrasive tone, his improvisations invariably had the balance and shape of a composer, which he also was.
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Ms. Nonken, who seems positively to revel in challenge, returns with Jean Barraque's famously difficult Sonata of 1952 in a program of that composer's music, which also features Ensemble 21 (Nov. 15), and she rejoins Ensemble 21 in an evening devoted to music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (Feb. 22).
Few other chamber orchestras have the vision and chops necessary to pull off a set that includes Stockhausen's Zeitmaße (or Time Measures) and a thrashing new symphonic piece by composer-saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell (which also included the composer-saxophonist's own firecracker playing).
Leon Botstein conducts an enticing production (which also features the composer's dance oratorio "Harnasie") by the director and designer Lech Majewski as part of his Bard Summerscape series.
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, an Azerbaijan composer, will be represented by Sabah, which also uses the pipa, this time with the piano.
The program, "The Chopin Experience," which also examines the composer's troubled personal life, follows similar tributes by the station to Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemaya draws on the mythology of the ancient Mayan civilisation and is a symphonic poem infused with Latin American colours, but which also reflects the composer's interest and understanding of Western European music from the first half of the 20th century.
This type of collaboration, in which classical performers can brainstorm in real time with genre-defying composers, epitomizes the mission of yMusic, which also includes Alex Sopp, a flutist; Hideaki Aomori, a clarinetist; and Clarice Jensen, a cellist.
