Joel Sachs, co-director of Continuum, has conducted at major festivals throughout the world, has been music director for experimental operas, and performs extensively as a pianist. At Juilliard, where he's been on faculty since 1970, Sachs conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, and directs the annual "Focus!" festival of new music.
He is also artistic director of Juilliard's concerts at the Museum of Modern Art's "Summergarden" festival. Other appearances include orchestra concerts in China, El Salvador, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, and Ukraine, and residencies in Brazil. He can be heard on all Continuum CDs. He also recorded intercultural music of the Americas with Mexico City's La Camerata de las Americas, and Icelandic music with the Reykjavik chamber orchestra Caput. He received Columbia University's Alice M. Ditson Award to a conductor for service to American music. A Harvard graduate, he received the Ph. D. at Columbia.
His biography of Henry Cowell, "Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music," was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press.
Joel Sachs appears in the following:
Henry Cowell: An Unknown Great
Friday, October 12, 2012
There's been a lot of talk lately about the late American composer John Cage, whose 100th birthday would have occurred on September 5. But Cage didn’t materialize out of thin air: He found inspiration from the work of another composer, Henry Cowell.
In fact, several generations of America’s most important composers owe a musical -- and perhaps philosophical -- debt to the 20th century innovator. And yet, people who at least know the names of John Cage, or Aaron Copland, or perhaps Charles Ives, have no idea who Cowell was.
Author and conductor Joel Sachs aims to change that with his book Henry Cowell – A Man Made of Music, and he joined us in the studio.
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music: Part 2
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music: Part 1
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
