Boston Modern Orchestra Project

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The next time you see a magpie in the sky, I hope you'll remember Four Saints in Three Acts.That there are a prologue and four acts, and 18 saints — maybe…

When I told composer David Del Tredici that I had taken one of his courses at Boston University in the 1970s, he asked, "Which one? Was it my course on…