Le Poisson Rogue is hardly a small venue, but March 7, 2014, with André de Ridder conducting the Ens...
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Evan Burke
The temptation to over-intellectualize Big Farm's self-titled debut is hard to resist.—which isn't t...
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Evan Burke
Anyone who writes music has to figure out how to balance structure and emotion. Logic and unpredicta...
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Evan Burke
Evan Ziporyn's new recording, Big Grenadilla /Mumbai, manages to be futuristic while playing with tr...
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Evan Burke
We all know, deep down, that classifying music is a fool's game, yet we can't seem to stop ourselves...
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Evan Burke
What I find most interesting about the Brooklyn Youth Chorus is the elegance with which the ensemble...
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Evan Burke
One would think that music and spoken word are two of the most complimentary art forms. They seem li...
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Evan Burke
Throughout his career, much ink has been spilled concerning Fazil Say's place at a cultural crossroa...
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Evan Burke
Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ...
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Evan Burke
More than anything else, words like natural and effortless come to mind when listening to Chris Thil...
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Evan Burke
Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising...
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Evan Burke
Nick Zammuto and Jason Treuting with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray @ Ecstatic Music Festival
Frank Zappa famously asked, “Does humor belong in music?”. He asked this question using an absurdist...
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Evan Burke
Music is often colorfully compared to alchemy. Both arts involve the careful meeting of scientific l...
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Evan Burke
More than seventy years since its composition, Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" swells with...
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Evan Burke
