First there were Daniel Barenboim and Radu Lupu playing a program of four-handed Schubert; second, an evening of Liszt and Albeniz with Mr. Barenboim alone.
The London Sinfonietta, for example, will be playing a program next month of Aphex Twin, Jamie Lidell, and other sonic scientists from the Warp Records label, pairing their work with the constructions of Reich and Cage.
Some of the Bay Area's finest composer-performers, playing a program which collages pieces inspired by classic avant-garde music (including Cage, Ligeti, and Varese), with compositions and improvisations by members of the group.
In July at Joe's Pub in the East Village, you could have heard the Absolute Ensemble as Absolute Mix, playing a program of crosscultural, contemporary and jazz works in a nightclub setting, with lights lowered, lots of amplification and infectious energy.
Its 84th season opens on Sunday with a performance by the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio playing a program that includes Mozart's Piano Trio in B flat (K. 502), Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in C minor (Op. 66) and a recent work by Richard Danielpour, "A Child's Reliquary".
The Shreve, Lamb & Harmon annex was dedicated in 1931, with a student orchestra led by Leopold Stokowski playing a program that included Handel's "Water Music" and a work entitled "Negro Rhapsody," by Rubin Goldmark, then the chairman of the school's composition department.
