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Question: When is a group not a group? Answer: Don’t ask DYGONG. – CD Liner Notes The CD arrived in…
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Andrew Lee
MATA 2012 is happening right now for the first time at Roulette, and we wanted to take the time to t…
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Thomas Deneuville
I used to be able to count the number of profound, live musical experiences I’ve had on one hand. It…
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Andrew Lee
Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I…
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Thomas Deneuville
Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new mu…
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Kelsey Walsh
Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ…
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Evan Burke
I am not a governess who treats the composer like a child and tells him what he should compose. I tr…
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Andrew Lee
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved,…
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Paul Kilbey
Contemporaneous’ bio states that the ensemble is “dedicated to performing the most excit…
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Thomas Deneuville
“A younger generation of New Zealand composers … have abandoned the country’s Romantic search for…
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Steven Berryman
Bassoon, trombone, tuba, double bass, cello – in many musical textures, low voices are employed as a…
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Rob Wendt
Ask a fan of The Mountain Goats what they listen for in the music of John Darnielle and there’s a ve…
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Elias Blumm
Her name might ring a bell since Steven Berryman reviewed her first CD last year for I Care if You L…
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Thomas Deneuville
More than anything else, words like natural and effortless come to mind when listening to Chris Thil…
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Evan Burke
It is not everyday that an American icon turns 75. Of course, Elliott Carter turned 103 last Decembe…
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Thomas Deneuville
The Norman S. Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music has the appearance of a spruc…
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Elias Blumm
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz lit up the Ij Haven last night in Amsterdam’s Muzikgebouw…
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Rob Wendt
I always find it interesting to read discussions on the validity of extended techniques and less con…
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Steven Berryman
Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit…
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Andrew Lee
The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music…
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Kelsey Walsh
Placing the pianist Brad Mehldau into a particular genre or category seems tricky; being defined as…
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Steven Berryman
In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half…
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Kelsey Walsh
