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Another Review of the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival

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Charles Wuorinen
Cover of Charles Wuorinen

From NYTimes.com:

Charles Wuorinen, the composer who directed this year’s festival, which ran from Wednesday through Sunday, made an effort to bring together the old new music and the new new music in his programming. And he made this very much a festival of the here and now: except for several works by Milton Babbitt, who died this year, the programs were devoted fully to music by living composers.

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