Oksana Nesterenko

NYC Calendar October 2025 WEDNESDAY, October 16:30 pm Friends of Klangforum ViennaProgram:Misato Mochizuki (1969) Pas à pas Georg Friedrich Haas (1953) Nach-Ruf… ent-gleitendPerformers: Klangforum WienVENUE: Austrian Cultur…

October in New York! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/01/n...

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The best way to celebrate a composer’s birthday is to listen to their music the way they intended it. Pauline Oliveros’s 80th, Terry Riley’s 90th, and Valentyn Sylvestrov’s 88th (yesterday). It's impossible to find a point of comparison. One thing I can say for sure, at the latter I cried the most.

Join us tomorrow for a book talk by our Executive Board member, Svitlana Biedarieva! Organized by the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute as part of the Decolonizing Ukrainian Studies event series. www.huri.harvard.edu/event/svitla...

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities There’s a German word for everything, and today’s example is Gebrauchsmusik – meaning ‘utility music’. This is music that exists not only for its own sake, but was composed for some specific, ident…

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities

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What you need today: Arvo Pärt is 90 Years Old, the latest at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...

YouTube video by Roman Mints Victoria Poleva. White Interment for Oboe and Strings

Today is the birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, Arvo Pärt, and Victoria Poleva. Since most here are familiar with the men, I will be posting some of Poleva's music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfL...

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

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because there is something in us more powerful as long as we continue placing freedom, justice, and universal happiness at the center of our commitment to life, even as we live through nightmares."
Happy birthday, Victoria, and thank you for the music that helps us live up to Beethoven's dream!

"This was Beethoven’s stubborn, sacred point — the reason he never gave up on Schiller’s dream, even as he lived through nightmares: this unassailable insistence that although the Napoleons and Putins of the world will rise to power again and again over the centuries, they will also fall,

Ода к радости

It was a delight to run into a mention of Victoria Poleva's Ode to Joy in this essay on Beethoven by Maria Popova. Referencing the concert commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she concludes:
(a thread)
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crime is in the eye of the beholder

With a new teaching load and other projects, I finished the calendar only on September 3rd! Luckily, there were no events before today, so this can count as the official start of the month for new music listeners!

And I'm sorry to insert a different kind of plug, but Oistrakh was Jewish, born in Odesa, and started his music studies with Ukrainian teachers. It's strange to see him labeled as a Russian great.

YouTube video by France Musique concerts Barbara Strozzi : Che si può fare op. 8 (Ensemble Artaserse / Scheen)

Here is one of my favorites - it's often the first piece in the semester when students say "wow." www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F45...

I'm on p. 118

Peeter Volkonski: rockimehed on hirmus tõsised, jazzis on huumorit 1. novembril astub festivali IDeeJazz raames Tartu Uue Teatri lavale kollektiiv, mis üle 30-ne aasta tagasi Tartu Levimuusikapäevadel laineid lõi – ansambel E=mc2.

Keep running into wonderfully strange ensembles in Estonia!
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but don't you have the largest number of single-authored books in the department? I'm reading the third chapter and feel like borrowing 80% of your methods! still time to relax

the no-sleeve short dresses are missing, as are many other female varieties. in any case, women heavily underrepresented

The key word here is "attempts." Indeed an enjoyable book, basically proving that really loving the art makes it almost impossible to hate its creator. (My observation of Tchaikovsky's admirers supports this claim.)

Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance Before she met John Lennon, she was a significant figure in avant-garde circles and had created a masterpiece of conceptual art. Did celebrity deprive her of her due as an artist?

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon. But she was one of the first artists to make conceptual art, and the creator of one of the movement’s masterpieces.

NYC Calendar August 2025 Highlights of the month:TIME:SPANS festival, August 9 – 23John Zorn’s residency at the Stone, August 13-16 FRIDAY, August 1 – THURSDAY, August 7Monk In PiecesMonk in Pieces, a doc…

August used to be a boring month for a new music listener in NYC. Then, one after another, arts organizations decided to take advantage of lack of events and plan a festival, a music series, a residency... Now August is a busy month, just like any other month. extendedtechniques.com/2025/08/01/n...

Looking forward to this documentary!

"Where is the Original?" - A story for a possible article about stealing/borrowing practice in Soviet art.

I feel like this timeline needs baby pictures. I don't have a baby anymore, but looking at these makes me happy!

It looks like there are a lot of hipsters even in the financial district! They don't mind giving up 2% of their millions.

NYC Calendar July 2025 TUESDAY, July 19:30 pm In-Store Concerts SeriesBen Goldberg – ClarinetMichael Coleman – SynthLuke Bergman – Pedal SteelMair Atwal – DrumsVENUE: DMGADMISSION: free July 1 – O…

July in New York - it never gets cooler extendedtechniques.com/2025/06/30/n...

They are teaching Jewish culture and Yiddish is the main language of diaspora Jews in the US, although most families don't care about it much (we do!). Pinya went to the Manhattan shul when he was 2-7 and might do a B'nei mitsve there. It's totally non-religious and focuses mainly on social justice

Workers' Circle is very active in NYC. I think it's as left as it gets today (although they were even more to the left when they started)

Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism

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