Last month, New York Polyphony strayed outside of its artistic comfort zone. Willingly! As part of a two-week residency at Stanford University, we participated in the premiere of Jonathan Berger’s opera cycle Visitations. This wasn’t New York Polyphony’s first foray into [*ahem*] opera—in 2007 we performed Der Jenaische Wein und Bierrufer, a comic cantata by [...]
It started with a new coat of paint. Then a second. Then things got lumpy. Bits and pieces stopped working here and there. Work-arounds were dispatched, many of them ham-handed but effective. But then the work-arounds needed work-arounds. Before long, it was undeniable: what was cool and cutting edge in 2011 had become, well, an [...]
The New York Polyphony website is getting a much needed facelift. Our plan is to return to 100% (or at least 92%) functionality by early next week. But we don’t want to make any promises we can’t keep. If you need a content fix, please visit our Twitter or Facebook pages. Thanks!
A guest blog entry from Gregory Brown, the composer of the Missa Charles Darwin: “I went to college to become a scientist. My first foray into academic publishing was a coauthored paper with the catchy title The Variation of Tourmaline Chemistry with Metamorphic Grade in Southwest Maine. You’ve read it? I thought not. At some [...]
In June 2011, New York Polyphony joined forces with Indaba Music to host the first-ever online Gregorian chant remix competition. The contest made available three of the genre’s “greatest hits” (Victimae paschali laudes, Gaudeamus in omnes Domino, and Beati mundo corde) which we recorded expressly for the competition. Each chant was featured in a stand-alone [...]
