Review: Los Angeles Composers Collective: Wind Quintets
On Friday, October 23, the Los Angeles Composers Collective presented a concert at Ross Chapel in Pasadena, featuring seven new wind quintets by the collective’s seven members. CLAW, the Los...
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HOCKET Interviews Composers, round 1: Aaron Holloway-Nahum
HOCKET On November 21, HOCKET will be presenting a FREE concert of new commissions at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA (concert information available at www.HOCKET.org). Leading up to...
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HOCKET Interviews Composers, round 2: Emily Cooley
HOCKET On November 21, HOCKET will be presenting a FREE concert of new commissions at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA (concert information available at www.HOCKET.org). Leading up to...
View ArticleSounds: Tholl/Fogel/Hoff: reasonable strategies for tense conjugation
Populist records just posted a new record from Andrew Tholl, Corey Fogel, and Devon Hoff, entitled CONDITIONAL TENSION. As populist points out on their site, the record is a great step forward for...
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HOCKET Interviews Composers, round 3: Ryan Harper
HOCKET On November 21, HOCKET will be presenting a FREE concert of new commissions at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA (concert information available at www.HOCKET.org). Leading up to...
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Review: Experimental Music Yearbook Concert at the wulf
On Friday, November 6, 2015 the wulf presented a concert by members of the Experimental Music Yearbook. A full house turned out to hear three pieces by Katherine Young, Brian Harnetty and Jennifer...
View ArticleReview: Aron Kallay: Beyond 12: Volume II
Microtonality is often quipped at as “the cracks between the piano keys.” It is tradition in our Western art culture to have the smallest interval be what is called a half step, or semitone; but why do...
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HOCKET Interviews Composers, round 4: Alex Weiser
HOCKET On November 21, HOCKET will be presenting a FREE concert of new commissions at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA (concert information available at www.HOCKET.org). Leading up to...
View ArticleReview: Equal Sound presents M83: Digital Shades [vol. 1]
We found the place all right, though it took a minute to find the door. It’s frankly genius, using a dance studio as a concert venue at night, since it functions like a blackbox theater. It even had a...
View ArticleGo to this: People Inside Electronics present Accordant Commons
Almost a year ago Isaac Schankler and I — and a bunch of other LA composers — were up in San Francisco for the New Music Gathering, when we experienced David Coll’s piece/sound installation/thing...
View ArticleReview: WasteLAnd presents Richard Valitutto
The final wasteLAnd concert of 2015, Nocturnes and Lullabies, featured Richard Valitutto at the piano and was presented on Friday evening, December 11, 2015 at Los Angeles City College’s Clausen Hall...
View ArticleSounds: Isaac Schankler: Pheromone
Flutist Meerenai Shim recently released the first album on new label Aerocade Music, and title track honors have gone to LA composer/musician/electronics guru Isaac Schankler. We’ll have a review of...
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Welcoming Brin Solomon to the team
I’m pleased to announce that writer, composer, and bassoonist Brin Solomon will be joining the team here at New Classic LA. Here’s Brin’s bio: Brin Solomon Brin Solomon is a Los Angeles-based...
View ArticleReview: Meerenai Shim: Pheromone
Meerenai Shim, contemporary flautist, describes herself as “[committed] to the advancement of the flute repertory.” Pheromone, the third of her solo recordings, doesn’t disappoint on this count. While...
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Round and Around and Around We Go
Desert Magic is an LA-based collective comprised of the talents of Alex Wand, Steven Van Betten and Logan Hone, all alumni of Cal Arts. With backgrounds in composition, folk, jazz, songwriting, and...
View ArticleSounds: Jason Barabba: Lettere da Triggiano
Composer Jason Barabba just posted a video of the premiere of his huge piece Lettere da Triggiano, and it’s great. What’s Next? Ensemble, joined by actor Kalean Ung and singers Elissa Johnson, Anna...
View ArticleReview: String Quartets at the wulf
On Friday, January 8, 2015 String Quartets, a concert of new music, was presented at the wulf in downtown Los Angeles. A capacity crowd turned out to hear two new pieces composed by Aaron Foster...
View ArticleSounds: Similar Fashion: Words Aren’t Things
We recently reviewed a killer new record/project/thing from Desert Magic, and their saxophonist Logan Hone has already sent me a new recording from his own band, Similar Fashion. And it rocks! Give it...
View ArticleReview: Turnage: Passchendaele at Walt Disney Concert Hall
From July to November of 1917, some five hundred thousand troops slaughtered each other over a scrappy Belgian ridge in the Battle of Passchendaele in World War One. The stated goal of the Allied...
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Review: Contemporary Poland comes to LA
Poland got off to a rough start in the twentieth century, what with back-to-back Nazi and Soviet invasion and control, but with the founding of the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1956, Polish musicians and...
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