"beautifully played"
— NY Times
In the spring of 2008, Mr. Arnone performed the complete solo piano music of Milton Babbitt in two concerts at Merkin Hall, at the Kaufman Center. This historic undertaking showcased music spanning over five decades, from 3 Compositions for Piano (1947) to Allegro Penseroso (1999). The complete live recordings from this series are now available as free downloads under a Creative Commons license. This includes two works, Overtime and My Complements to Roger, which have not yet been made commercially available. Recordings are available here.
During the upcoming season, Mr. Arnone will premiere a new trio by Christopher Bailey with cellist David Eggar and clarinetist Meighan Stoops. The premiere will take place as part of an ongoing new music series entitled JUMP. (Japan US Music Perspectives) Concerts will be held in Boston and New York, January/Febrary 2009. He will also perform an all Milton Babbitt program at the Church of St. John The Evangelist in April, program to include Allegro Penseroso, Partitions, Post-Partitions, Canonical Form, About Time, and more. Further premieres this year will be two new piano pieces, Chez Monk(2008) by Stephen Gorbos and Meditation 3(2007) by Christopher Bailey, to be presented in November in Red Bank, NJ, and in April at Catholic University in Washington DC, along with Jason Eckardt's Tango Clandestino and several works by Milton Babbitt. See concerts for more details.