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
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
Music For Writers: The Colorist Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Instants’ Of Love
‘Perfume Of The Instant’ While writers talk of “color commentary,” they actually mean something not that different from what in music we might call great “colorists” among composers. And in world music, Finland’s composers are surely among those most prized for their work in creating sonic “color.” Einojuhani Rautavaara is perhaps chief among the great… Read More