ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Modern Composition

When a composer dies, a world falls silent; two of the composers honored below are no longer with us, but their music lives on.  One album stretches back even further to highlight a 9th century princess; another recalls the woman

ACL 2024 ~ Music for Stained Glass

In our very first year (2012), ACL ran a year-end list called Music for Synagogues and Cathedrals.  Since then, the boundaries of spiritual music have greatly expanded.  From haunted organ to repurposed hymn, spoken meditation to abraded choir, these artists have experimented

Wild Up ~ Julius Eastman Vol. 4 The Holy Presence

Wild Up, the Los Angeles band/new music ensemble, has been releasing recordings of their performances of the work of Julius Eastman for going on five years now. It is as much a work of archival recovery as a creative endeavor

wild Up ~ Feather & Stone

We review a lot of modern classical crossover at ACL, but this is the real deal: the type of composition that moves music forward.  For evidence, look no further than the inclusion of Messiaen’s “oiseaux exotiques”, a piece that won’t