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Christian Gentry

Christian Gentry is a composer, professor, sound collector, and writer in the Boston area.
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Hannah Lash’s Beowulf Premiered by Guerilla Opera

The idea and place called home, in all its comforts and dangers, is the theme skulking about in Hann...
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Christian Gentry
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Ludovico Einaudi’s Elements on Ponderosa Music & Art

Upon a first listening, Ludivoco Einaudi’s Elements begins as a promising journey through an enticin...
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Christian Gentry
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Chamber Music for Strings: Jane Antonia Cornish’s Continuum

In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y...
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Christian Gentry
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Sound Icon performs Le Noir de l’Etoile in Boston

Dedicating itself to the performance of recent masterworks in the Western contemporary music canon,...
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Christian Gentry
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Jeffrey Zeigler: Something of Life on Innova

A soloist with collaborative roots Jeffrey Zeigler’s recent solo album Something of Life illustrates...
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Christian Gentry
Keeril Makan - Photo by Scott Irvine

5 Questions to Keeril Makan (composer)

Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York...
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Christian Gentry
Martin Boykan Photo by BMOP Website

5 Questions to Martin Boykan

As a composer, scholar, and teacher, Martin Boykan’s influence pervades the spectrum of recent compo...
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Christian Gentry
Jeffrey Means conducting Sound Icon (Michele McDonald/Boston-Globe)

Two Concerts in Boston: Preservationism or Progressivism? (part 2/2)

Sound Icon | Part 2: The Progressivist (read also Part 1: The Preservationist) If Boston Musica Viva...
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Christian Gentry
Boston Musica Viva (Photo by Aram Boghostan/Boston Globe)

Two Concerts in Boston: Preservationism or Progressivism? (part 1 of 2)

Boston Musica Viva | Part 1: The Preservationist Last November, I began this post with the intention...
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Christian Gentry
Jeffrey Means - Photo by Jesse Weiner

5 questions to Jeffrey Means (Conductor)

Jeffrey Means is not only a founder and the artistic director of the ambitious Sound Icon, he is the...
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Christian Gentry
Say it ain't so, Joe

5 questions to Curtis K. Hughes (composer)

Say It Ain’t So, Joe is a chamber opera composed by Curtis K. Hughes in 2009 with a subsequent premi...
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Christian Gentry

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