Steve Koenig

Incredible Risks: New and Improvised Music

So many new releases, reissues, and back catalog items that shouldn’t be neglected. Dig in. Enjoy.

Incredible Risks: New and Improvised Music

So many new releases, reissues, and back catalog items that shouldn’t be neglected. Dig in. Enjoy.

Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries

To paraphrase the great musical parodist Anna Russell, “The beauty of opera is that it doesn’t quite matter what you do, so long as you sing it.”

Composed and deComposed: Music of Our Centuries

To paraphrase the great musical parodist Anna Russell, “The beauty of opera is that it doesn’t quite matter what you do, so long as you sing it.”

La Música Mexicana

Report #3: Progressive Rock, Jazz and Folk

La Música Mexicana

Report #3: Progressive Rock, Jazz and Folk

Incredible Risks: Jazz and Improvised Music

I’m using a slightly different format for “Incredible Risks” this issue. There are tons of discs flying in, many worthies, and I’ll be covering live gigs again in the next issue.

Incredible Risks: Jazz and Improvised Music

I’m using a slightly different format for “Incredible Risks” this issue. There are tons of discs flying in, many worthies, and I’ll be covering live gigs again in the next issue.

Boulez 2000

The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.

Boulez 2000

The ever-adapting Pierre Boulez hit Carnegie Hall this year in a series called Making Music 2000.

Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries

Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”

Composed and deComposed: Music Of Our Centuries

Carnegie Hall presented an all-Kurtág concert in their “Making Music 2000” series. Kurtág was supposed to appear and perform, but is, moderator Ara Guzelimian told us, “reluctant to travel.”

Music of Mexico: Manuel Ponce and Beyond

Wherever you go in Mexico, there is music.

Music of Mexico: Manuel Ponce and Beyond

Wherever you go in Mexico, there is music.

Sonic Boom Festival, No. 8

Sonic Boom 8 began November 3, with a concert by the New York New Music Ensemble titled “Electricity In The Air,” four of the five compositions being electroacoustic.

Sonic Boom Festival, No. 8

Sonic Boom 8 began November 3, with a concert by the New York New Music Ensemble titled “Electricity In The Air,” four of the five compositions being electroacoustic.

Incredible Risks

The excitable emcee hadn’t gotten over her cheerleading days, and from where I sat in the left aisle, the engineer set the Electro-Voice loudspeakers so loud they distorted and overwhelmed the balance of some of the delicate pieces.

Incredible Risks

The excitable emcee hadn’t gotten over her cheerleading days, and from where I sat in the left aisle, the engineer set the Electro-Voice loudspeakers so loud they distorted and overwhelmed the balance of some of the delicate pieces.

Musica Mexicana: An Introduction

This past August, I arrived in Mexico City… and discovered that in one hour would begin the first night of a week-long music festival called Ruido…primer festival de arte sonoro, or Noise…the first sonic arts festival.

Musica Mexicana: An Introduction

This past August, I arrived in Mexico City… and discovered that in one hour would begin the first night of a week-long music festival called Ruido…primer festival de arte sonoro, or Noise…the first sonic arts festival.

The One Hundred Records which Changed my Life

Not really a hundred, not at least in a single swallow.

The One Hundred Records which Changed my Life

Not really a hundred, not at least in a single swallow.

The Belgian Artist Known as Brume

The Belgian artist known as Brume… first came to my attention over a dozen years ago in that wonderful way music has of finding its proper audience, someone else’s give-away pile.

The Belgian Artist Known as Brume

The Belgian artist known as Brume… first came to my attention over a dozen years ago in that wonderful way music has of finding its proper audience, someone else’s give-away pile.