Articles

Crouch End Festival Chorus

Crouch End Festival Chorus/David Temple: Barbican, London

The Crouch End Festival Chorus, directed by David Temple, has established itself as a leading chorus…
Author
Steven Berryman
Image

Claire Chase releases Terrestre on New Focus Recordings

On her new album Terrestre, Claire Chase achieves every woodwind player’s fantasy: playing with a pe…
Author
David Pearson
Brooklyn Rider - Photograph by Sarah Small

Premiere Commission 10th anniversary concert at Le Poisson Rouge

The Premiere Commission 10th Anniversary Concert at Le Poisson Rouge, February 13th, 2012, featured…
Author
Matt Weber
Image

A Far Cry, Slow Six and This Will Destroy You at Ecstatic Music Festival

Music is often colorfully compared to alchemy. Both arts involve the careful meeting of scientific l…
Author
Evan Burke
Image

Hanging out with Leah Kardos at Steinway Hall | Hang #2

Leah Kardos was in town this week and I am so happy I got to hang out with her (and her friend Liz).
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Image

Sxip Shirey and Angélica Negrón at Ecstatic Music Festival

The length of an usual article on this blog would probably not be enough to merely list the differen…
Author
Matt Weber

5 Questions to Ben Bunch (Artist)

Your third solo show, “Twenty-first Century Freemasonry”, opened on January 21 at The Proposition. W…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Image

Indie-Classical Guitars: Music for 1, 2, 3, and 4 guitars at LPR

On January 26, I spent the evening at Le Poisson Rouge for a show called Indie-Classical Guitars: Mu…
Author
Evan Flath
Image

Jherek Bischoff and the Wordless Music Orchestra open the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival

This year’s edition of Ecstatic Music Festival just started and even if it won’t feature Judd Greens…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Kronos Quartet - Photograph by Michael Wilson

Kronos Quartet’s Early Music at the Barbican, London

The Kronos Quartet completed their week-long residence with the Barbican Centre in London with a typ…
Author
Paul Kilbey

James Noyes’ Imaginings at Our Saviour’s Atonement

James Noyes James N…
Author
Evan Burke
Judd Greenstein

5 questions to Judd Greenstein (Composer)

As the 2012 edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival is about to start, we asked 5 questions to Judd G…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Image

A folk-inspired evening with Bridget Kibbey at Le Poisson Rouge

“Who’s ever been to a harp recital?” A couple of hands were shyly raised. “And who’s ever been to a…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Image

Dennis Russell Davies in rehearsal (Philip Glass, Symphony No. 9 – US Premiere)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUS-u5LoSX0   Today, on his 75th birthday, the American Compose…
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Posing Questions: Wolfgang Rihm at 60

2012 sees the 60th birthday of the prolific composer Wolfgang Rihm and the London Sinfonietta curate…
Author
Steven Berryman
Sharla Nafziger (soprano), and Michael Slattery (tenor)

Focus on Schoenberg at the Austrian Cultural Forum

On January19th, the Austrian Cultural Forum presented the first concert in a new lieder series led b…
Author
Lauren Ishida
Image

Beauty from Ugliness

Discussing aesthetic principles and ideals is always a subjective topic, with the totality of what i…
Author
Tai Livingston

An earthly abode for ethereal sounds: Claire Chase’s “Terrestre” release party

On January 17th, Claire Chase celebrated the arrival of her new CD, Terrestre (earthly in French, Ed…
Author
Neil Prufer

Asphalt Orchestra at the Met Museum

To celebrate the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum’s New American Wing Galleries for Paint…
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Image

Flirting with extremes, ensemblebash at Kings Place

The percussion quartet ensemblebash celebrate their twenty years of musical success with a series of…
Author
Steven Berryman
Image

Apocalyptic Klezmer and “The End of Time” – David Krakauer at Joe’s Pub

More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” swells with…
Author
Evan Burke
Image

Don’t Judge an Album by its Cover: Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11

Following a fair amount of controversy regarding scandalous album art, Steve Reich released a new al…
Author
George Heathco
Image

In the fertile shadow of Schoenberg

Somewhere in the world of contemporary music, in among all the solo bassoon CDs and Tom Waits arrang…
Author
Paul Kilbey

Not just another Christmas CD: Etherea Vocal Ensemble’s Ceremony of Carols on Delos Music

Holiday CDs come and go.  Some fade out while others become lasting favorites.  My prediction is tha…
Author
Lauren Ishida
1 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 123

Never Miss an Article

Sign up for our newsletter and get a weekly round-up of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN content delivered straight to your inbox every Friday.