New Releasings
Labor Records in collaboration with Naxos is releasing a series of recordings of my work covering more than half a century! The most recent release is "Jukebox in the Tavern of Love" paired with a new work by Meredith Monk. "The Nude Paper Sermon" and "Wiretap" is a double album containing no fewer than five works; see below for details. "Civilization & its Discontents" is a words-and-music collaboration with Michael Sahl. More information, reviews and ordering (physical or digital editions) is available below or by going to Labor Records.
The Nude Paper Sermon
The Nude Paper Sermon will be reviewed in the forthcoming Signal to Noise Magazine. The full article by William Gibson, A Nude Paper Rendezvous: Electronic Psychedelic Nonesuch, will be included in issue no.63. Here is a preview from the article:
“[The Nude Paper Sermon] is both of its time and still amazingly fresh. There are portions that sound like Gyorgy Ligeti’s music for 2001: A Space Odyssey. And there are moments that sound like free jazz. And there are moments that sound like nothing else I’ve ever heard.”
Date Posted // November 08, 2011
In Categories // News, Reviews, The Nude Paper Sermon, Works and Productions
The New Music Theater for Christmas
Trish Causey has put The New Music Theater in her top 10 list of Christmas gifts in her Theater Blog for About.com:
“Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi have done an incredible job of mapping the vast and ever-changing artform of Musical Theatre. No longer viewed as the unfortunate hybrid of operetta and Vaudeville, Music Theatre is an artform to be reckoned with… This 416-page survey of changing writing and performing styles should be on the book of every theatre lover.”
Date Posted // November 02, 2011
In Categories // Music Theater, News, Reviews, The New Music Theater, Writings
Performance Dates in Latvia
Eric Salzman’s Brecht Suite, Accord, and tangos of the rediscovered composer Oscar Strok (arranged by Salzman) are included in a program of Latvian ballads that is currently touring in Latvia. Performed with Laila Salins as vocalist and a string trio that includes members of Quartet Undertango. This program is a collaboration between the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York and the Music and Art Support Foundation in Riga, Latvia. Read the article from the Latvian Times
Friday, August 27, 8pm
The Clay Castle Manor
www.malpilsmuiza.lv
Saturday, August 28, 10:30pm
3rd International Argentinian Tango Festival (Tango SunFestival)
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Sunday, August 29, 4pm
The Dikls Castle
www.diklupils.lv – Broken LinkDetails and Tickets
Saturday, September 4, 6pm
The White Grand Recital Hall (Baltais Fligelis), Sigulda
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Tickets
Friday, September 7th, 8pm
Aizkraukle Cultural Center
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Thursday, September 9th, 8pm
Beta Novuss (Floating Arts Center) AB Dam, Riga
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Tickets
Friday, September 10, 7pm
Kuldiga Cultural Center
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Saturday, September 11, 5pm
Dobeles Cultural Center
Sunday, September 12th, 5pm
Cesis Exhibition Hall
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Tickets
Date Posted // August 05, 2010
In Categories // Accord/Discord, Brecht Suite, Events, News, Works and Productions
Accord/Discord in Latvia
Salzman will be taking Accord/Discord to Latvia in late August and September for a series of performances, lectures, and workshops. The tour will include three concerts in three outlying towns of Riga on the weekend of August 27–29, a concert in Riga on September 4, lectures on September 6 and 9, and a final set of three concerts in three outlying towns on the weekend of September 10–12.
Date Posted // July 18, 2010
In Categories // Accord/Discord, Events, News, Works and Productions
Postponed Performances
The projected performance of Cassandra (text by Eva Salzman) by Kristin Norderval scheduled for this summer as part of the Vox Clamans Festival has been postponed until next season with the new date to be announced.
The projected performance of Accord/Discord—including Accord, for solo accordionist, Brecht Suite, and arrangements of Latvian and Argentine tangos—scheduled for performance at the Music Festival of the Hamptons this summer has also been postponed with a new date to be announced.
Date Posted // June 02, 2010
In Categories // Accord/Discord, Brecht Suite, Cassandra, Events, News