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Rob Wendt

Rob Wendt is a pianist/composer/music educator living in Astoria, NY.
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Yale in New York Concert Champions the Legacy of Paul Hindemith

Despite this concert having been anticipated in The Wall Street Journal and The Jewish Week (as well...
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David Shifrin - Photo by Bob Handelman

5 questions to David Shifrin (clarinetist, artistic director)

Rob Wendt asked 5 questions to David Shifrin (clarinetist, artistic director) about the legacy of Pa...
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John Zorn at Jazz Middelheim 2012 (photo credit: Bruno Bollaert, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license. Via walkerart.org)

Zorn@60: The Improvisatory Embrace of New York and Japan

Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn, known to me mostly as the founder of East Village not-for-p...
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Donnacha Dennehy - Photo by Sophie Dennehy

5 questions to Donnacha Dennehy (composer, artistic director of Crash Ensemble)

Until I heard Alarm Will Sound perform scenes from The Hunger, your work-in-progress about the Great...
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Daugherty, Temple U. Transport NYC to the Banks of the Mississippi

The Temple University Symphony Orchestra performed the New York premiere of Michael Daugherty’s Refl...
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Alexander String Quartet

With Strings Attached: San Francisco Choral Artists & The Alexander String Quartet

This album is the creative fruit of a unique Bay Area collaboration between San Francisco Choral Art...
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John Adams conducting - Photo by Lambert Orkis

On the Transmigration of Jazz and Modernity: John Adams at the Lincoln Center Festival

John Adams conducted the Orchestra of The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music in three w...
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Thresholds – the healing power of music

Saturday night at St. Paul the Apostle on Manhattan’s west side, the Schola Cantorum on Hudson (SCH)...
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De Profundis: The Deep End – Yale in New York closes season with music for low instruments

Bassoon, trombone, tuba, double bass, cello – in many musical textures, low voices are employed as a...
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Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz, reconciling the classical and modern in Amsterdam

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz lit up the Ij Haven last night in Amsterdam's Muzikgebouw...
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WANTED: a labyrinth, an abstraction, an escape from the spiritual void in the post-empire age

Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”...
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Arvo Pärt Spans the Millenial Divide with Timeless Gems (Naxos)

Pärt Piano Music by Naxos features pianist Ralph van Raat interpreting the Estonian composer’s music...
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David Lang’s this was written by hand – Meditations on Memory

On his new album from Cantaloupe Music, this was written by hand, David Lang treats the piano altern...
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On artistic solidarity and the globalization of music

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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Ensemble Signal and Brad Lubman

Le Poisson Rouge pays tribute to a Polish icon

I finally made it to Le Poisson Rouge, which I have heard so much about, to hear this tribute concer...
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SONiC Festival – Camerata Aberta at Americas Society

Camerata Aberta boasts some of São Paulo’s most dedicated musicians. Seven of the group’s sixteen me...
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Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers by Lisa Moore on Cantaloupe

The titular composition of Lisa Moore's new EP, composed in 2008, refers to a telegraph operator.  T...
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