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David Lang
St. John's Smith Square
London, United Kingdom
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Julia Wolfe
St. John's Smith Square
London, United Kingdom
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David Lang
Robert Blackwood Hall
Melbourne, Australia
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Julia Wolfe
Robert Blackwood Hall
Melbourne, Australia
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Michael Gordon
July
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JULY 1 – 31
In spring of 2020, in isolation, I wrote a short piano piece every day. At the end of the day I would send the piece to the pianist Vicky Chow. On each day in July 2020, Vicky released the 31 piano works, one a day, on Instagram. Now in 2021 we are sharing July with an amazing array of pianists …
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Jacob Druckman’s Horizons
an article for an unpublished Druckman memorial edition of Contemporary Music Review, (2000), Harold Meltzer, editor.
What we are celebrating with this festival is all the new music.
So wrote Jacob Druckman in the program booklet for Horizons ’84, The New Romanticism – A Broader View, the second festival of three that Druckman curated for the New York Philharmonic in 1983, 1984 and 1986. The statement is not totally true – the Horizons Festivals were never supposed to be about all the new music…continue reading