The Peoples' Symphony Concerts, a New York institution since 1900, begins its 2015-16 season on Oct. 4. Marc-André Hamelin, Jonathan Biss, Augustin Hadelich, and Lise de la Salle are included on this year's roster, offering high-level concerts at remarkably low cost. Students under the age of thirty-five would be idiotic not to purchase a $25 season pass, which gives access to eighteen concerts. That comes to just under $1.39 per concert, for those who don't have their calculators handy.... This year's Trondheim Chamber Music Festival focuses on Maja S. K. Ratkje.... A happy tenth birthday to the rigorous rowdies of the JACK Quartet.... Yarn/Wire is also celebrating its tenth season. This is the place to recall, ruefully, that when I first mentioned the group here on the blog, in 2007, I called them "Yam/Wire."... The Resonant Bodies Festival unfolds at NYC's Merkin Hall Sept. 9-11. Dawn Upshaw, Tony Arnold, Du Yun, and Kate Soper are among the participants; there will be world premières by Chaya Czernowin, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Amadeus Regucera, and Susan Botti, among others.... The inventive director and animateur Yuval Sharon is taking up a three-year appointment with the LA Phil.... Vivien Schweitzer profiles Annie Gosfield for the New York Times.... Sharp thoughts on that Yale jazz matter from Matthew Guerrieri, in NewMusicBox, and from Ethan Iverson, who gives a surprise cameo to Harold Shapero.
