“American composers 40 and under are the focus of the New York Philharmonic’s latest Contact! new-music concert, on Monday, Nov. 16,” writes Zachary Woolfe in Wednesday’s (11/11) New York Times. “The first Contact! to be hosted at the recently opened performance space National Sawdust, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the event features chamber works by Kate Soper, Adam Schoenberg, Nathan Heidelberger and Caroline Mallonée. Mario Davidovsky, born in Argentina but a resident of the United States for the past half-century, represents an older generation with his sextet ‘Flashbacks.’ … The following evening, Joel Sachs, the Juilliard School’s modern-music eminence, leads his New Juilliard Ensemble in small-scale recent works by Gyorgy Kurtag, Du Yun, Michael Zev Gordon, Elliott Sharp (the premiere of ‘Wannsee Noir’) and James Primosch” at Lincoln Center’s Paul Recital Hall.
Posted November 12, 2015
