Michael Gordon News

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School Of The Arts continues the 12th season of its renowned Composer Portraits with John Zorn.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York's renowned electric chamber music ensemble, take the stage at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 9pm to perform the New York premieres of Louis Andriessen's Life with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam (postponed from a previous season due to the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland) and David Lang's sunray, plus Michael Gordon's for Madeline, Kate Moore's Ridgeway, three pieces commissioned by Bang on a Can from David Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors (Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M), and Lukas Ligeti's Glamour Girl.

Midwest New Musicals kicks off Words and Music, its new concert reading series of original musicals beginning Monday, October 24 at 7:30 PM at the Light Opera Works Second Stage, 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. Tickets are $15 at the door.

The Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York's renowned electric chamber music ensemble, take the stage at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 9pm to perform the New York premieres of Louis Andriessen's Life with film by Marijke Van Warmerdam (postponed from a previous season due to the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland) and David Lang's sunray, plus Michael Gordon's for Madeline, Kate Moore's Ridgeway, three pieces commissioned by Bang on a Can from David Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors (Instructional Video, Matt Damon, Breakfast at J&M), and Lukas Ligeti's Glamour Girl.

Kronos Quartet Perform World Works in 9/11 Tribute ‘Awakening' at Jorgensen tonight, at 7:30 p.m.

Composer Lisa Bielawa's The Houri and the Poet will have its world premiere on Sunday, September 25 at 7pm in a free concert performed by soprano Mary MacKenzie, cellist Andre Emelianoff, and pianist Vicky Chow at the Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W. 13th Street, NYC).

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) announces 2011 Next Wave Festival-featuring seventeen music, dance, and theater engagements from Sep 21-Dec 18

Kronos Quartet to Perform World Works in 9/11 Tribute ‘Awakening' at Jorgensen Tues, Sept. 27, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.

BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC opens 2011-12 season with two free preview concerts

Kronos Quartet, one of the world's most acclaimed classical performance groups, is returning to Salt Lake City to perform Awakening, a musical meditation on the anniversary of 9/11.

In the days following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, NPR listeners wrote that the music within the news broadcasts offered comfort and time for reflection.

In the days following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, NPR listeners wrote that the music within the news broadcasts offered comfort and time for reflection.

Composer Lisa Bielawa's The Houri and the Poet will have its world premiere on Sunday, September 25 at 7pm in a free concert performed by soprano Mary MacKenzie, cellist Andre Emelianoff, and pianist Vicky Chow at the Tenri Cultural Institute (43A W. 13th Street, NYC).

Kronos Quartet, one of the world's most acclaimed classical performance groups, is returning to Salt Lake City to perform Awakening, a musical meditation on the anniversary of 9/11.

The 'relentlessly inventive' (New York Magazine) new music institution Bang on a Can will celebrate its 25th anniversary season in 2011-2012 with performances around the world, featuring a broad selection of brand new musical adventures alongside a recommitment to acclaimed projects from past years.

Midwest New Musicals kicks off Words and Music, its new concert reading series of original musicals beginning Monday, October 24 at 7:30 PM at the Light Opera Works Second Stage, 1420 Maple (at Lake) in Evanston. Tickets are $15 at the door.

Brooklyn philharmonic has just announced their 2011-12 season:

Midwest New Musicals presents Spring Rains and Labor Pains, the 2011 Mini-Musical Project on Sunday, July 17, 6:30 PM at the McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium at 1420 Maple in Evanston. Tickets for the general public are $10 at the door.

Midwest New Musicals presents Spring Rains and Labor Pains, the 2011 Mini-Musical Project on Sunday, July 17, 6:30 PM at the McGaw YMCA Children's Center Auditorium at 1420 Maple in Evanston. Tickets for the general public are $10 at the door.

Midwest New Musicals in association with Light Opera Works will hold an intensive program where writers explore the use of music, lyrics and dialogue through hands-on assignments that introduce them to musical theater forms and collaborative technique, culminating in public performances of the Mini-Musicals Project.