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A Laval, Que. man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing another man and attacking him with a hammer in Ottawa.

The breakthrough Minimalist, not known for making albums, has at last put out an authorized recording of his 64-year-old “Trio for Strings.”

The classical music world has long been preparing composers for the entrepreneurial role they perform today.

Joshua Kosman March 2, 2021Updated: March 2, 2021, 6:32 pm Composer David Del Tredici (left) with soprano Barbara Hendricks and conductor Seiji Ozawa during rehearsals for “Child Alice.” Photo: Chronicle file photo One night in 1983, I went to an orchestral concert with a couple of composer friends. The headline piece on the program was a recent work by an increasingly prominent living composer, and we didn’t care for it at all. So we responded in the way the situation seemed...

Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. From left: David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe in 1987, when they founded the contemporary-music organization Bang on a Can amid a long decline in public arts funding.Credit...Robert Lewis By William Robin Feb. 18, 2021 “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” the composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1...

How a scrappy arts group survived the 90s Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. by William Robin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recently lost about a fifth of its budget because of massive cut...

Joshua Kosman February 16, 2021Updated: February 16, 2021, 7:46 pm Bang on a Can founding artistic directors David Lang (left), Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe. Photo: Peter Serling Something possibly worth noting about the influential New York new-music behemoth Bang on a Can is that the name is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. There aren’t any cans, and there’s only a reasonable amount of banging. Yet the name, which evolved out of a throwaway joke in an early grant application...

like dave. here he is now. he swears by a little pill nicknamed the viagra for the brain. the pill you take every day is supposed to treat a sleep disorder called narcolepsy which you dont have. why do you take it? >> because it helps me be better at all the things i do. i am a better father, better meditator and entrepreneur. it helps across everything you do. >> you are a successful internet executive. do you think you would be where you are in your career right now without provigil?...

set for tuesday in federal court in tucson, arizona. 14 fires and scorching huge chunks of oklahoma. oklahoma county sheriffs are looking for a possible arson suspect who may be linked to one fire. a red flag warning is in effect for much of the state. the governor said dangerous conditions are fueling the fires. at least 120 homes or buildings have been destroyed. a live report from oklahoma. stay tuned for that here. in the caribbean, tropical storm ernesto drawing a beat on the yuca...