The NY Phil has named Anna Þorvaldsdóttir its next Kravis Emerging Composer. A very sound choice.... Next week in NYC, the Either/Or 10th Spring Festival presents Gio Janiashvili, Anthony Coleman, Rădulescu, and Feldman....On June 6 at the DiMenna Center in NYC, Lisa Moore plays music of Stephen Cabell, Kate Moore, Chris Rogerson, and John Luther Adams — part of the Kettle Corn New Music series.... The musicologist W. Anthony Sheppard has made some amazing discoveries about the music boxes that Puccini used for source material in Butterfly and Turandot. His article appears in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (free access for the moment).... Worthy of support: a documentary about Einstein on the Beach.... A beautiful package of the films of Bill Morrison is now available from BFI.... This year the Chelsea Music Festival takes a Finno-Ugric turn, celebrating Finland and Hungary. The ensemble-in-residence is Avanti!, playing the obvious Sibelius and Bartók as well as a great many lesser-known or up-and-coming figures, including composer-in-residence Ilari Kaila.... The Carlsbad Music Festival has its annual Village Music Walk on June 20.... The full lineup for the Bang on a Can Marathon, on June 21, has been announced. The three founding composers are collaborating with Robert Zollitsch (aka Lao Luo) on a new collective work, Cloud-River-Mountain. Given that Make Music NY is slated for the same date, it will be a mad day in the big city.
