Matt Irwin performs -- Photo by Lydia Smith
Concert

Review: <MASS> at The Museum of Russian Art

Ben Durrant, deVon Russell Gray, Emma Garau, Matt Irwin, Meghan Irwin, The Museum of Russian Art, Zak Sally
A sign on the door outside The Museum of Russian Art listed something between a manifesto and a user’s guide. At <MASS>, there’s no talking, no phones. “You are a participant, not an observer.”…
Dustin Nelson
Patrick Shiroishi -- Photo by David Haskell
Interview

5 Questions to Patrick Shiroishi (multi-instrumentalist, composer)

Bon Odori, Courtney Swain, Dylan Fujioka, Fuubutsushi, Jaimie Branch, Jason Nazary, otay::onii, Patrick Shiroishi, Pauline Lay, Randall Taylor, We Jazz Records
Patrick Shiroishi has a signature mode of spiritual intensity that he expresses through his saxophone. Still, to label the Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist as merely a saxophonist…
Christian Kriegeskotte
Rossen Milanov and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra -- Photo by Randall Schlieber
Concert

Review: Gregory Spears and Davóne Tines at the Columbus Symphony Orchestra

Columbus Symphony, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Davóne Tines, Gregory Spears, Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky, The Ohio Theater
The Ohio Theater can easily swallow one’s attention. The vibrancy of the Spanish-Baroque style is a feast for the eyes, the amber glow of the limited lighting adding an air of foreboding. It was a per…
A. Kori Hill
Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon -- Photo by Richard Termine
Concert

Review: Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon “How does it feel to look at nothing”

BAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Holland Andrews, yuniya edi kwon
How does it feel to look at nothing? The title of Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon’s experimental opera was a guiding light to experience the piece in its Oct. 23 staging at BAM. How does it feel f…
Lana Norris
Peter Mattei as Lincoln and Everett Sobers as Willie Lincoln in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's
Concert

Review: “Lincoln in the Bardo” at The Metropolitan Opera

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Christine Goerke, Everett Sobers, George Saunders, Janai Brugger, Jonah Hoskins, Joshua Blue, Missy Mazzoli, Peter Mattei, Royce Vavrek, Ryan McKinny, the Met Opera, The Metropolitan Opera
I heard the wind rushing as soon as I stepped into the Metropolitan Opera House on the evening of Oct. 19. The hall resonated with a crepuscular chorus of cicadas, frogs, and crickets as overture, and…
Stephanie Boyd
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Ashley DuBose -- Photo by Jayme Halbritter
Ashley DuBose — Photo by Jayme Halbritter

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