International Society for Contemporary Music

Since the 2018 ISCM World New Music Days in Beijing is now only a little over a month away, we wanted to share with you this fascinating and extremely detailed report by Hadani Ditmars about the ISCM 2017 World New Music Days in Vancouver which will hopefully give anyone who has never attended one of these a sense of the breadth and depth of this annual new music marathon (as well as bring back some pleasant memories for the folks who were lucky enough to attend it.) https://www.iscm.org/articles/world-new-music-encourages-international-art-deep-listening-%E2%80%94-2017-iscm-world-new-music

We were very saddened to learn about the passing of longtime ISCM legal counsel and ISCM Honorary Member Franz Eckert on Thursday, November 16, 2017, at the age of 86. Dr. Eckert served as the ISCM’s legal counsel from 1971 to 2015. In 2011, Eckert was elected an ISCM Honorary Member for the great value of his work for us. A memorial mass will take place on Thursday, November 23, 2017 and a requiem with subsequent burial on Friday, November 24, 2017 at the Klein-Mariazell Basilica in Austria. http://www.iscm.org/articles/memoriam-iscm-honorary-member-franz-eckert-1931-2017