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The percussion quartet ensemblebash celebrate their twenty years of musical success with a series of…
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Steven Berryman
More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” swells with…
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Evan Burke
Following a fair amount of controversy regarding scandalous album art, Steve Reich released a new al…
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George Heathco
Somewhere in the world of contemporary music, in among all the solo bassoon CDs and Tom Waits arrang…
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Paul Kilbey
Holiday CDs come and go. Some fade out while others become lasting favorites. My prediction is tha…
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Lauren Ishida
First, before we go any further, let’s review the basics of Kamala Sankaram’s Miranda: it is a “stea…
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Evan Burke
Huang Ruo assembled an exceptional group of young musicians for performances of three of his new com…
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David Pearson
Every so often an album comes out with the right combination of substance and edge that you know rep…
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David Pearson
I’m a regular visitor to Hall Two at Kings Place, London, and it was lovely to see how well lighting…
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Steven Berryman
A fascinating new release from Signum Classics, and the second with the London Sinfonietta, is In Se…
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Steven Berryman
Last month, Miller Theater presented a concert of John Zorn’s music as part of its Composer Portrait…
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Jeremy Howard Beck
While exploring many different sounds and concepts, your jazz compositions maintain strong roots in…
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David Pearson
After a brief Facebook/Twitter survey, Nadia Boulanger emerged as a good candidate for this French C…
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Thomas Deneuville
Putting out a solo album for bassoon without any harmonic accompaniment is a daring move. The sound…
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David Pearson
Albany’s release of recent works by Jan Krzywicki captures the unique and coherent voice of this Phi…
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David Pearson
Last week, Make Music New York introduced a new annual event: Make Music Winter. For its first insta…
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Thomas Deneuville
Hippos Epos is the latest release by Italian percussionist Sebastiano de Gennaro, on Trovarobato’s P…
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George Heathco
The free improvisation group AMM have, remarkably, been active since 1965, and founder-member Eddie…
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Paul Kilbey
On his new album from Cantaloupe Music, this was written by hand, David Lang treats the piano altern…
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Rob Wendt
It made a welcome change to a conventional Christmas concert to go and hear in the North Sea Radio O…
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Steven Berryman
yMusic and New Amsterdam Records put on a release party earlier this month for their debut album, Be…
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Jeremy Howard Beck
Mercy and Grand is a collaborative project commissioned by the UK group Opera North, in which a grou…
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Paul Kilbey
You described your piece Ridgeway as reflecting a search for identity. Can you explain what this mea…
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David Pearson
