Julius Eastman

Carol Jantsch, Principal Tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Carol Jantsch in a tuba concerto by John Williams, plus symphonies by Mendelssohn and Eastman

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, May 31 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, June 1 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Mendelssohn, Julius Eastman, and John Williams. Finnish guest conductor Dalia Stasevska is on the podium, and Principal Tuba Carol Jantsch is featured as soloist.

What Wild Up unearths on <em>Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy</em><em> </em>is more than just music, it's a set of relations and modes of comporting in the world that risk trading fleeting, worldly praise to regain the eternal soul.

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Interpreting the music of Julius Eastman, Wild Up honors the composer's vastness

Harmony Holiday

The feat the Los Angeles group Wild Up achieves in interpreting the music of Julius Eastman is the refusal to attempt impersonation — the musicians make him their muse without fetishizing him.

Composer Julius Eastman's music is slowly moving from neglected to championed.

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Julius Eastman, A Misunderstood Composer, Returns To The Light

Tom Huizenga

A visionary who died young and alone in 1990, Eastman is making a slow but richly deserved comeback thanks to a curious younger generation. A new interpretation of his 1974 work Femenine is out now.

Arts Desk

The Nearly Forgotten Music of Julius Eastman

In a prelude to what could become a full-blown festival, Bowerbird, the experimental music presenter, stages two events on Friday, October 16th and…