4-16-2012 2:00pm - 4:00pm
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist
CalArts, B318, Valencia, CA
The Composition program presents visiting artist Oscar Bettison
4-11-2012
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Visiting Artist
California State University, Long Beach
4-10-2012 8:00 pm
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA Livre des Sauvages (World Premiere, LA Phil commission)
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group / John Adams
3-14-2012
BL!NDMAN. Kaaitheater, Bruxelles, Belgium O Death
Percussion group redefines traditional music parameters
By Sarah Scully, The Dartmouth
During So Percussion’s performance on Friday night, kitchen timers went off, wind-up toys marched across the stage and cell phone alarms went off in the audience at exactly 8:38 p.m. It was all coordinated as part of So Percussion’s music, which breaks down the traditional parameters of what defines music... Read more
Odd instruments are music to composers' ears
By Rick Schultz, The Los Angeles Times
The score for Oscar Bettison's chamber concerto "Livre des Sauvages" ("The Book of Savages") should come with an IKEA-like warning: Some Assembly Required. The half-hour work, which will be given its premiere Tuesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella new music series, employs a toy piano, hotel desk bells, melodicas (with foot pumps), tuned cowbells, tuning forks, conch shells and a "wrenchophone." The concert, to be conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, also will feature works by Stockhausen and Cage... Read more
Oscar Bettison: World Premiere of Livre des Sauvages at Los Angeles Philharmonic (March 2012) John Adams Conducts Premiere At Green Umbrella Series, April 2012
The newest work by Boosey & Hawkes Emerging Composer Oscar Bettison is set to be premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in April. Livre des Sauvages for chamber orchestra will be presented as part of the orchestra’s Green Umbrella series, an acclaimed showcase for new contemporary music. The world premiere performance takes place April 10, 2012... Read more
ABC Classic FM - New Music Up Late Off The Record: Pete Harden Presented by Julian Day, Broadcast 10:30pm, Sat 24 Mar 2012
Pete Harden of Ensemble Klang talks to Julian Day on ABC about all things Klang, including a broadcast of the whole of "O Death" Read more
Noteworthy in 2011: SONiC, Ensemble Klang and Oscar Bettison Posted by Christian Carey, sequenza21.com Read more
Score of the Day: Oscar Bettison's O Death for six players and electronics original link
Ensemble ACJW's June show at LPR, NYC featuring, amongst other things, my piece "Breaking and Entering (with Aggravated Assault)."
Live from (Le) Poisson Rouge on June 12, 2011
SONiC Snapshots: Oscar Bettison and Rebecca Stenn/Konrad Kaczmarek By Daniel J. Kushner
Oscar Bettison: I wanted to set this big immovable object in the middle of the piece -- it ended up being the fourth movement... in the song "O Death" the idea of the character pleading with the figure of death not to take him away so soon,...
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