Dan Albertson has written for La Folia since 2004. His pursuits involve languages, lexicography, music, musicology, poetry, and translation, and tend to veer away from mainstream artists. He has worked on the Living Composers Project since 2000, has written articles for MusikTexte, has contributed entries to the encyclopedia Komponisten der Gegenwart, and has edited multiple volumes of the British journal Contemporary Music Review, on the composers Helmut Lachenmann, Earle Brown and Aldo Clementi, plus two volumes on modernism and the string quartet and a co-edited volume on Spanish music beyond Spanish borders. He has been a member of its editorial board since 2014. He translates notes for Cybele Records in Düsseldorf and has contributed his own notes to a variety of international labels. His poems are generally short and static in nature. American by birth, he is now based abroad.
Dan Albertson
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Homo PoMo
Clementi and Silvestrov represent the late 20th century in its Janus-visaged splendor, two chiselers making the most of a ravaged and desolate toolkit – disparate fellow travelers.
Of Scotch and Stardust
A composer pair with nil in common. Life is meant to be paradoxical.
Of Scotch and Stardust
A composer pair with nil in common. Life is meant to be paradoxical.
Of Crags and Fissures
As forewarned on his 75th birthday, here is a brief glimpse into the recorded output of Emmanuel Nunes (1941-2012), an exile from Portugal whose mature career was spent between France and Germany.
Of Crags and Fissures
As forewarned on his 75th birthday, here is a brief glimpse into the recorded output of Emmanuel Nunes (1941-2012), an exile from Portugal whose mature career was spent between France and Germany.
N & D & N
Nunes would have turned 75 on 31 August; Dusapin had a rare outing in the orchestral season of an American orchestra in May; Nemescu writes music at once conceptual and visceral, one defying words.
N & D & N
Nunes would have turned 75 on 31 August; Dusapin had a rare outing in the orchestral season of an American orchestra in May; Nemescu writes music at once conceptual and visceral, one defying words.
Vernal, Sylvan, Southern
The age of renewal is a potent reminder of life’s cycles.
The Hemidemisemi-Monde
The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, his varied books and adventures, make solid fodder for a spectacle.
The Hemidemisemi-Monde
The Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, his varied books and adventures, make solid fodder for a spectacle.
You Too Can Program Your Local Symphony!
Yes, that time of year has arrived when one orchestra after another trickles in with season brochures.
You Too Can Program Your Local Symphony!
Yes, that time of year has arrived when one orchestra after another trickles in with season brochures.
An American?
John McGuire is proof that music in the late 20th century and early 21st century may be simple without teetering into asininity.
An American?
John McGuire is proof that music in the late 20th century and early 21st century may be simple without teetering into asininity.
Descending
A representation of a composer on the verge of brilliance, this recording is essential and, for now, the only option.
Descending
A representation of a composer on the verge of brilliance, this recording is essential and, for now, the only option.
Snapshots: Serenity, Perturbed – Aribert Reimann
Nacht-Räume is neither song nor song-cycle. Indeed, it is mostly not a vocal composition at all.
Snapshots: Serenity, Perturbed – Aribert Reimann
Nacht-Räume is neither song nor song-cycle. Indeed, it is mostly not a vocal composition at all.
Eight Beacons
My enthusiasm for the new in music has faded in recent years… I therefore take this opportunity to give some attention to eight composers 40 and under.
Eight Beacons
My enthusiasm for the new in music has faded in recent years… I therefore take this opportunity to give some attention to eight composers 40 and under.