Sunday, September 1, 2013

21ST-CENTURY MUSIC / September 2013


21ST
CENTURY
MUSIC


September 2013

Volume 20, Number 9


Bartok: Early Works / Phillip George

Calendar for September 2013


Illustration / Bela Bartok with son Bela Bartok Jr. (1910)



Editorial Staff

Mark Alburger

EDITOR-PUBLISHER

Harriet March Page
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Patti Noel Deuter
ASSISTANT EDITOR

Erling Wold
WEBMASTER

Elizabeth Agnew
Alexis Alrich
Katherine Buono
Ken Bullock
A.J. Churchill
David Cleary
Jeff Dunn
Phillip George
Elliot Harmon
Brian Holmes
Jeff Kaliss
John Lane
Arel Lucas
Michael McDonagh
Chip Michael
Tom Moore
William Rowland
Lisa Scola Prosek
Andrew Shapiro
Alice Shields
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Calendar for September 2013



September 3

Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and the premiere of Frederic Rzewski’s Four Hands.  Bargemusic, New York, NY.







September 28

The Opus Project presents Opus 9: Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, No. 1, Op. 9, No. 1;
Bela Bartok's Dirge, Op. 9, No. 1; Igor Stravinsky's Poem of Paul Verlaine, Op. 9, No. 1; Anton Webern's Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9; Sergei Prokofiev's Two Poems, Op. 9, No. 1; Paul Hindemith's Three Songs, Op. 9, No. 1; Kurt Weill's Quodlibet, Op. 9; Dmitri Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 9, No. 1; Dmitri Shostakovich's Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 9, No. 1; Samuel Barber's Symphony in One Movement, Op. 9; Alan Hovhaness's Piano Quintet, Op. 9, No. 1; Benjamin Britten's Soirees Musicales, Op. 9, No. 1; William Severson's Brass Quintet; Mark Alburger's Psalm 92, Op. 9, No. 2; and Lisa Scola Prosek's Blue Jay.  Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA.