Carnegie Hall Afternoon

It's the last weekend of winter 2007, and I spent it warm inside Carnegie Hall for a 3 hour performance by Alarm Will Sound.

This weekend, March 18, marks the end of of John Adam's 4 year run as composer in residence at Carnegie Hall. John Adams is contemporary classical composer, who is thought to be a peer to other minimalist composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, John Cage and Terry Riley. To celebrate the culmination of Mr. Adam's tenure, he curated the In Your Ear Redux program this past weekend.

Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band comprised of musical Artists-in-Residence at Dickinson College. The New York Times says Alarm Will Sound is "the future of classical music." They performed Aphex twin covers, original compositions, and generally performed everything in such an experimental and inventive way that I was never bored. They were, in a word, awesome.