ACL 2012: Top Ten Modern Composition

The Modern Composition genre is the heir to the Classical: music composed for piano, brass, strings or orchestra.  One might expect to encounter these artists in churches and other resonant spaces designed for full musical palettes and rich timbral shades.

Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti ~ Gramercy

How can musicians move music forward?  By inventing new instruments – a tricky proposition – or learning to play old instruments in new ways.  Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti take the latter path on Gramercy.  Davis is billed as a “clarinet abuser”,