Tag: The Kitchen
'EXCLUSIVE: MATA Festival Q&A Spotlight with Adam de la Cour
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'EXCLUSIVE: MATA Festival Q&A Spotlight with Wang Lu
Founded by Philip Glass, Lisa Bielawa and Eleonor Sandresky in 1996, the MATA Young Composers Now! Festival strives to present emerging compositional talent sourced from across the globe. The 2015 edition at The Kitchen continues in that very tradition, featuring quite the varied array of exemplary young voices. So, with a nod to the spirit of MATA, itself, Classicalite has chosen three composers to speak with about that career-defining opportunity: a MATA Fest commission. First, we chat with Chinese composer Wang Lu, a 2014 Guggenheim composer and pianist whose work Urban Inventory opened on Tuesday--as part of the "Curiouser and Curiouser" program, featuring performances of Lu's work by Sweden's Curious Chamber Players. -
'PHOTOS: Tyondai Braxton, Amirtha Kidambi Explore Ben Vida's 'Slipping Control (ver. 3)' at The Kitchen Synth Nights
Last name: Vida; first name: Ben. Most apropos, though, for this show: Classicalite's first post on Mr. Vida at Justin Luke's Audio Visual Arts for 'Slipping Control.' During his grand psychoacoustical examination of the differences between the spoken and the more inchoate riddims of vox poesie...