Posted by Sheila Tepper and Kelsey McConnell · 2/11/2018 12:00 PM
Composer Julius Eastman | Photo by Donald Burkhardt
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Open Ears: So many people who made invaluable contributions to classical music were underappreciated in their time, or have been nearly lost to history. That’s why KUSC is starting Open Ears, a series of stories about composers, musicians, and conductors who deserve more recognition. You can learn more and explore other articles here.
Nearly 30 years after his death, music by composer Julius Eastman began popping up on programs around Los Angeles his work, reflecting his conflicted experience as a gay Black American, finding new relevance among audiences.
A Beloved London Concert Hall Grows Bold as It Turns 120
Smart choices in the pandemic mean that the Wigmore Hall is reopening in a more confident position than many other British venues.
The pianist Stephen Hough rehearsing in the Wigmore Hall in May last year. Concerts livestreamed from the empty auditorium reached a wide audience during England’s first coronavirus lockdown.Credit.Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
May 28, 2021, 9:18 a.m. ET
LONDON “Welcome!” said John Gilhooly, the general director of the Wigmore Hall, standing in front of the auditorium’s small circular stage. The audience applauded wildly for a crowd of chamber music fans.
Joel Chadabe, Explorer of Electronic Musicâs Frontier, Dies at 82
As both a composer and an advocate, Mr. Chadabe devoted himself to what one music critic called the âmarriage between humans and their computers.â
The composer Joel Chadabe during his tenure at the State University of New York at Albany, where he had been hired at 27 to run the university’s electronic music studio. “I took to it, I think, because for me it was the frontier,” he said.Credit.Luther Smith
May 25, 2021Updated 5:56 p.m. ET
Joel Chadabe, a composer who helped pioneer electronic music in the 1960s, later developing compositional software programs and founding the Electronic Music Foundation, an advocacy organization for electronic music, died on May 2 at his home in Albany, N.Y. He was 82.