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Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a writer, journalist and broadcaster based in New York City.
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Oslo’s 2017 Only Connect Festival of Sound Inspires

A determining factor for any music festival, at least for this reporter, is not what is fun or excit...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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ACME and Carolina Eyck at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

The German composer Carolina Eyck’s recent Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet (Butterscotch R...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Keller Quartett presents Cantante e tranquillo (ECM Records)

Nobody should like this record and neither should I. This collection of string quartet music by Bach...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass at The Temple of Dendur

The Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur exhibition space is an unlikely, compelling and acoustica...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Wet Ink Ensemble “Book of Returns” at St. Peter’s Church

The Wet Ink Ensemble is something of a new music perpetual motion machine, counting among its seven...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Kate Soper “Voices From the Killing Jar” on Carrier Records

Kate Soper seems this season to be especially concerned with the rights of fictional women. Her wond...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Bach, Revisited: Bach and Saariaho at Miller Theatre

The magnificent geometries of Johann Sebastian Bach don't really need any assistance in being kept c...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Falling for Kate Soper’s Sirens’ Songs at Dixon Place Theater

There are many things one might say – would, in fact, want to say – about Morningside Opera's produc...
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Kurt Gottschalk
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Taxonomic Affinities: Johnson’s Chord Catalogue and Vriezen’s Within Fourths/Within Fifths

In the world of composed music, Tom Johnson's work verges on concept art. And within the realm of co...
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Kurt Gottschalk

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