Posts Tagged: Alan Pierson

INTERACTIVITY, TECHNOLOGY, and the AWS / GOOGLE COLLABORATION

One of my great joys as Alarm Will Sound’s conductor is that when we perform John Luther Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds, I have absolutely nothing to do. We perform the piece is a kind of environmental installation, with players all around the audience playing bird songs that John has imaginatively realized for instruments. It’s not […]

April 19, 2018 | , , , , , , , ,

This Music Should Not Exist – Sold Out at Carnegie Hall

“This performance was a marvel… this made for approximately 25 minutes of the best live music I’ve heard so far this year.” –  The New York Times “The ensemble playing behind Orfe and in the Chamber Concerto was finer than one has heard in this music, live or on recording, by a considerable margin.” – New […]

March 20, 2018 | , , , , , , ,

Old and New: Alan Pierson conducts the Alabama Symphony

Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound artistic director, will lead the Alabama Symphony in a concert featuring music of Vivaldi, Haydn and Ruehr. I spoke to Alan about the performance, his preparation, relationships between old and new music and working with a chamber ensemble versus a large orchestra. Mike: Do you see a lot of overlap […]

February 20, 2015 | , , , , , , , , , ,