-Pierre Boulez
Boulez is alive.
-Judd Greenstein
Milton Babbitt, 1916-2011. In Memoriam.
I’ve been affected, in writing this post, by the Ecstatic Music Festival going on in New York City (through March 28, 2011). I was able to attend only a small part of the opening day’s Marathon, but the part I attended was sublime. The Chiara String Quartet played Jefferson Friedman’s String Quartet No. 3, and the NOW Ensemble played Judd Greenstein’s City Boy. Both pieces were superb, the musicians excellent, and the composers were in attendance. I was, yes, ecstatic, to be able to attend two more concerts that week.
