Nicolas Collins and Kato Hideki kick off Roulette’s annual Mixology Festival

A personal account of the 9th annual awards ceremony from the JJA President.

How the presence of James Levine is impacting Boston’s new music scene.

Preview of the 2005 Texas Music Festival.

Impressions of the 2005 New Music Miami ISCM Festival.

New instruments entice composer into San Francisco Symphony commission.

The Seattle Chamber Players not only sold out its performance of Astor Piazzolla’s opera, María de Buenos Aires, but could barely accommodate a second audience which eagerly paid for tickets to the morning’s dress rehearsal. Why so popular?

Thoughts about the Sonic Interventions conference at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.

New American music dominates the Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony’s year-end concerts.

New music group Bent Frequency concluded their season with a concert at Eyedrum on May 8, titled (Bang Fist). Within the first half of the program, Stuart Gerber offered two interesting solo performance art pieces: Bang Fist, a short, early text by John Cage which eventually appeared in his piece 45′ For a Speaker, and Giorgio Battistelli’s Il Libro Celibe which has a score that is essentially pictures. The “libro” is a large, briefcase-like box that the performer opens in the manner of a book, each “page” being a rather flat “instrument,” such as a piece of paper, cellophane, metal, or a sound-making construction.