Vol. 2, No. 4

Stockhausen’s Helikopter-Streichquartett

“I heard and saw the four string players in four helicopters flying in the air and playing…”

Stockhausen’s Helikopter-Streichquartett

“I heard and saw the four string players in four helicopters flying in the air and playing…”

Text into Music

Text into music is the worse of two evils.

Text into Music

Text into music is the worse of two evils.

Early Modulations: Vintage Volts

From Caipirinha comes a disc, somewhat different from their usual fare…

Early Modulations: Vintage Volts

From Caipirinha comes a disc, somewhat different from their usual fare…

A Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavier

The great cycle of forty-eight keyboard preludes and fugues that Bach created for didactic purposes in The Well-Tempered Clavier is one of the sublime monuments of Western art.

A Well-Tempered Well-Tempered Clavier

The great cycle of forty-eight keyboard preludes and fugues that Bach created for didactic purposes in The Well-Tempered Clavier is one of the sublime monuments of Western art.

Wolfgang Holzmair

Holzmair? You really want to know? Well, just for starters, imagine a baritone who sounds like Fritz Wunderlich.

Wolfgang Holzmair

Holzmair? You really want to know? Well, just for starters, imagine a baritone who sounds like Fritz Wunderlich.

Chaya Czernowin

The succinct (9:36) nonet’s title, Afatsim, translates to Galls, i.e., tissue swellings “often distinguished by a characteristic shape or color” brought about, usually, by parasites.

Chaya Czernowin

The succinct (9:36) nonet’s title, Afatsim, translates to Galls, i.e., tissue swellings “often distinguished by a characteristic shape or color” brought about, usually, by parasites.

Lennie Redux

What best becomes a legend? Reissue status.

Lennie Redux

What best becomes a legend? Reissue status.

Composer-Performer Tom Hamilton

… Tom Hamilton has, in the best, traditional sense, the ear of an acoustic instrumentalist and composer, despite his creative participation on the electronic side of events.

Composer-Performer Tom Hamilton

… Tom Hamilton has, in the best, traditional sense, the ear of an acoustic instrumentalist and composer, despite his creative participation on the electronic side of events.

Boulez 2000

The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.

Boulez 2000

The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.

Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries

Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”

Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries

Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”

Music of Mexico: Manuel Ponce and Beyond

Wherever you go in Mexico, there is music.

Music of Mexico: Manuel Ponce and Beyond

Wherever you go in Mexico, there is music.

Really Old Music

The sacred music that enjoys a popular profile falls into two groups, the High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance (sometimes termed the Counter-Reformation).

Really Old Music

The sacred music that enjoys a popular profile falls into two groups, the High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance (sometimes termed the Counter-Reformation).