Contemporary classical music’s best friend, violist Nadia Sirota has a residency at Symphony Space and a new album on the way. Porter Anderson in ThoughtCatalog.com’s #MusicForWriters. Read More
#MusicForWriters: Brad Lubman — An ‘Explosion Of Compositional Languages’
A ‘Gateway Drug’ In Contemporary Music Daniel Stephen Johnson is right when, in his write-up for Q2 Music’s Album of the Week, he refers to Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians as a “gateway drug for a lifelong addiction to Reich’s aesthetic.” I’ve turned people on to this piece more than than to any other,… Read More
Music For Writers: Q2 Music And Nadia Sirota On a Roll — ‘Meet The Composer’, Season 2
Accelerando Toward A Major Stretch Goal As of this moment, only a very small subset of the world listens to it. But if Nadia Sirota and her friends listening to her in 70 countries have anything to do with it, that will change and keep changing. t Sirota is talking about “contemporary classical music,” the most nearly… Read More