April 25, 2018 • 10:00 am Comments Off on San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gets $46 Million Gift
Students in the Technology and Applied Composition program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Credit Sewon Barrera
My latest New York Times story is now online.
Thanks to MaryClare Brzytwa, David Stull, Emily Pitts, DuMarkus Davis.
Here are some sound samples from the TAC program:
Filed under: music news, New York Times, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, women composers
November 24, 2017 • 8:17 am Comments Off on An Unfinished “Phantom Opera” Is Completed with Love
Pauline Oliveros; photo by Allan J. Cronin
Remembering the great Pauline Oliveros, one year after her death: my New York Times story on The Nubian Word for Flowers:
Pauline Oliveros, the beloved composer who died last November, spent her long career experimenting — with improvisation, with technologically enhanced sound design and with “deep listening,” her term for a kind of heightened, mindful perception of sound.
Filed under: new opera, New York Times
August 22, 2017 • 1:55 pm Comments Off on Alice Goodman: New York Times Profile
Alice Goodman in Fulbourn, England. Credit Nadine Ijewere for “The New York Times”
My New York Times story on the poet and librettist Alice Goodman is now online:
When “Nixon in China” had its premiere at Houston Grand Opera on Oct. 22, 1987, there had never been anything quite like it. No previous American opera — perhaps no opera, ever — had so boldly dealt with recent political history…
Filed under: Alice Goodman, American literature, American opera, John Adams, librettists, New York Times, Peter Sellars, Uncategorized
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