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Alarm Will Sound and Caleb Burhans
The versatile, 20-piece chamber band Alarm Will Sound led by Alan Pierson is made up of many stellar musicians who also perform double-duty as accomplished composers and arrangers. In this February 23...
View ArticleAlan Pierson to Lead the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Finally!! Brooklyn lives up to its hipper-than-hip image! Alan Pierson, the 36-year old conductor of the groundbreaking New Music ensembles Alarm Will Sound and Dublin-based Crash Ensemble, is bringing...
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Three-City Dash: Ethel and Alarm Will Sound
Meet the Composer (MTC) has long been noted for supporting composers not just in New York but all over the world. In an effort to highlight its national presence, MTC launched Three-City Dash, a...
View ArticleSan Francisco/Boston Treats
Meet the Composer (MTC), an advocacy organization for contemporary music, recently held a festival of three concerts in New York City. Aptly named Three-City Dash, it showcases some of the boldest...
View ArticleListen: Alarm Will Sound Perform John Cage and Edgard Varèse
On Sunday, March 18 at 3 pm, Alarm Will Sound under the direction of Alan Pierson performed music by John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Conlon Nancarrow, and Elliott Sharp often in arrangements from ensemble...
View ArticleThe Omnivorous Tendencies of Bermel and Turnage
On its third disc of music by Mark-Anthony Turnage, the London Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by a trio of outstanding soloists: violist Laurence Power, violinist Christian Teztlaff and clarinetist...
View ArticleThe Transcontinental Travels of Derek Bermel and Alarm Will Sound
Just what sort of ensemble is Alarm Will Sound? Their repertoire zigs and zags: Steve Reich, Aphex Twin, John Cale, Louis Andriessen, and somewhere along the line, a tasting menu of rhythmically...
View ArticleRocking Hard and Subverting Expectations with Dan Visconti
Coloring contemporary classical vernacular with jazz inflections and bluegrass rhythms, Dan Visconti's compositions embody a thoroughly American aesthetic. With commissions from the Kronos Quartet,...
View ArticleMet Museum Concert Series Expands into Galleries for 2013-14 Season
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday announced its 2013-14 season of concerts and lectures, one that expands the number of events taking place in the museum’s galleries, and outside the traditional...
View ArticleTwo Takes on the Music of Multi-Instrumentalist Caleb Burhans
On Tuesday, June 18 at 8 pm, Q2 Music streams an adrenalized double bill of new-music powerhouse Alarm Will Sound and the music of composer Caleb Burhans, and the lyrical, ambient electronic duo,...
View ArticleProfound Simplicity with Caleb Burhans
Over the course of the last decade, composer and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans has become a truly ubiquitous presence in the New York new-music scene. A member of Alarm Will Sound, ACME,...
View ArticleCaleb Burhans Delivers Melancholic Stillness with Punk-Rock Bravado
Caleb Burhans clearly has a sense of purpose. As a founding member of various performer collectives like Alarm Will Sound and Newspeak– and with his contributions as a composer to several projects on...
View Article'Evensong' Brings the Club to the Cathedral
The criticism that this or that classical musician "wishes he/she were a rock star" tends to come pretty cheap, but especially so in the case of composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Caleb...
View ArticleLive: Alarm Will Sound Unveils a Musical 'Permanent Collection'
On Friday, October 11 at 7 pm, Q2 Music presented a live audio webcast of "The Permanent Collection" – music of Thomas Adès, György Ligeti, Richard Wagner and Charles Ives performed by the trailblazing...
View ArticlePremiere of Steve Reich's Radio Rewrite
On Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7 pm, Q2 Music presented a live audio stream of Alarm Will Sound's all Steve Reich concert from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Introduced by...
View ArticleBonus Track: Excerpts from The Hunger by Donnacha Dennehy
In 1844, Asenath Nicholson, a school teacher, reformer and proprietor of an all-vegetarian boarding house in New York City, travelled to Ireland to "personally investigate the condition of the Irish...
View ArticleAlarm Will Sound Delights in Playful, Unscary 'Modernists'
Who’s afraid of the big, bad, modernists? The cartoon faces on the cover of Alarm Will Sound’s new album definitely are. With the exaggerated features and campy colors of vintage B-movie posters, they...
View ArticleA Day in the Life: Alarm Will Sound
How do artists refresh their creative lives? Every week, one of our favorite artists will take over our Instagram to reveal his or her favorite forms of down-time. Each week, Q2 Music compiles the...
View ArticleSplitting Adams: John Adams' Chamber Symphonies
What happens when the composer shows up to the first rehearsal of his brand-new piece? Would a living Beethoven sue for intellectual property? Are you the hit, or are you in the hole? For this episode,...
View ArticleBonus Track: John Adams' 'Coast,' Unplugged
Today's bonus track is an exclusive arrangement of a nutso, sci-fi-y electronic piece John Adams wrote in 1993. Originally part of a larger work, Hoodoo Zephyr, Coast was never intended to be performed...
View ArticleMeet the Composer and Alarm Will Sound's 'Splitting Adams'
John Adams is a contemporary composer, if not the contemporary composer, whose music speaks for itself. Adams' compositions have managed to forge a connection between the majesty of 19th-century...
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