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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
Earlier this Fall, Cantaloupe (the record label created 10 years ago by the founders of Bang on a Ca…
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Thomas Deneuville
I am really excited to announce a new feature on this blog: a video series. Inspired by the amazing…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Tai Livingston
This is too viral not to be posted… Last week Dominic Irving, a UK-based composer and pianist,…
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Thomas Deneuville
What happens when a brilliant Lied performer is accompanied by a foremost composer? Well, something…
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Thomas Deneuville
Like many readers of this blog, I am on the mailing list for Bang on a Can. A recent email described…
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Rob Wendt
There are many elements of music which we take for granted, especially in traditional Western music,…
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Neil Prufer
I felt fortunate to attend the final concert that formed part of a short series at Kings Place, Lond…
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Steven Berryman
The Delos label’s new disc of Tchaikovsky’s complete works for violin and piano delivers consistentl…
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David Pearson
Last Sunday evening, the innovative Manhattan-based choir Choral Chameleon presented an eclectic pro…
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Lauren Ishida
