Music may feed the soul, but it still goes best with a drink.

I’m not really sure if “concert” is the right word at all. Installation? Event? Happening? Experience?

This was a Valentine’s Day we won’t soon forget, raising over $6,000 for Partners In Health and their world-class care to the people of Haiti.

“All told, twenty-six works of various lengths were performed, most contemporary and eclectic.”

Watch concert highlights from Groanbox, New Music 101, Reverb, and Glimpses.

The piece has a virtuosic mandolin part and an amalgam of styles including Middle Eastern harmonies, lots of minor seconds, fluttering tremolos, and string bits that occasionally sound like something from a Bernard Herrmann film score.

There’s a long tradition of composers finding inspiration in Balinese music, from Poulenc and Britten to Evan Ziporyn and Ingram Marshall.

“I absolutely love churches for their long reverb. Harmonic structures can only emerge through reverb or the listener’s memory.”

To hear her describe it in precise, almost scientific terms might lead one to believe that Erin is not her music’s best salesperson; that is, until she gets on stage.

For Cristina Spinei, writing music is inextricably linked to dance, her study of Brazilian folk music, and, at times, the sounds and rhythms of her commute on Metro-North railway.

With four completely different voices, the composers in our fall concert, REVERB, have summed up their thoughts on what new music can express.