The eternally fascinating La Monte Young spoke to Will Robin in advance of an exceedingly rare performance of Young's Trio for Strings, ground zero for American minimalism. The big event takes place on Sept. 3, at Dia:Chelsea, as part of a multi-month Young /Marian Zazeela / Jung Hee Choi series.... ACME kicks off its season on Sept. 11, with a program featuring Timo Andres, Caleb Burhans, Clarice Jensen, Ben Russell, and Caroline Shaw, both as composers and performers. It's part of the Five Boroughs Music Festival.... On the same night in LA, wild Up presents the winners of the American Composers Forum National Composition Competition: Alex Temple, Nina C. Young, and William Gardiner all receive premieres.... There are many fascinating pages on Frank Gehry's musical architecture in Paul Goldberger's new biography, Building Art.... The new Sono Luminus recording of Anna Thorvaldsdottír's mesmerizing In The Light Of Air is streaming on NPR Music. You can also watch an ICE video above.... Never mind those celebrity Baltic conductors: Q2 is today presenting a twenty-four-hour marathon of twenty-first-century music from Latvia. There will be a repeat on Aug. 29.... At WFMT, the gifted young composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin has a thoughtful response to some absurdly overblown comparisons (Bernstein, Mozart) that he has lately inspired: "When a young playwright is getting attention, no one says, ‘Oh, this person is the next Shakespeare.'" His children's opera Second Nature had its première at Lincoln Park Zoo last week and will return on Oct. 17.... Floating Opera, New York's newest alternative opera company, will make its début on Oct. 16, with a production of Pelléas. The venue will be the Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79, Red Hook's beloved arts barge. Cage's Europeras 3 and 4 will follow later in the season.
