NewMusicBox, the online magazine of the American Music Center, celebrates today its tenth birthday. Heartiest congratulations to Frank Oteri and his team for having the wit to launch the site at a time when "classical" music seemed alien to the Internet, and for maintaining it in consistently imaginative fashion. To mark the anniversary, NewMusicBox has put up a rich trove of new material — personal reflections from Oteri, a video by Molly Sheridan, and short essays by various new-music personalities. John Luther Adams, in his contribution, gives an enticing preview of his new piece Inuksuit, a work for nine to ninety percussionists performing in the open air, the score modeled on stone sentinels built by the Inuit in Arctic spaces. The premiere will take place this June in Banff, on the summer solstice. Onward and outward....
