Caroline Shaw and the Pulitzer

Caroline Shaw just won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music, the youngest composer ever to do so. Turns out that Shaw is a friend of Son Lux (whose remarkable remix work you may have heard, and which I will have to feature sometime in this blog).  It was his newsletter that brought her to my attention. Check out the fourth movement of Partita for 8 Voices composed by the 30-year-old Shaw, who doesn't even think of herself as a composer!



Learn more about Shaw and her gorgeous music at her website.

You can also find Shaw's music on the New Amsterdam label, a site rife with good stuff from a variety of composers (you can find Nico Muhly there, for example) you may not have heard yet.

Richie Havens, R.I.P.

Richie Havens, dead today, at age 72.   But his performances, like this one at Woodstock 1969, will live on for the rest of us.


Or this Dylan cover:
Another one:

Learn more about Havens.

Be Quiet and Listen

Brian Eno installs soundscapes and images in hospitals.  More here.

The Lonely Night

New collaboration from Moby and Mark Lanegan ... (watch full screen, of course)

Exceeding expectations. Last night I watched the PBS TV "In Performance At The White House" tribute to Memphis Soul. A great way to spend an hour, and hear both legendary soul singers and some newer contenders. Watch the program in its 56-minute entirety here ...

Watch Memphis Soul on PBS. See more from In Performance at The White House.