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Today, and we have a track premiere from German composer, pianist, and sound designer Philipp Rumsch...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
In the sweepstakes of contemporary music, the marimba and the bass clarinet have—for different reaso...
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Colin Holter
When I was a lad in the ’60s, one of my favorite LPs was the RCA release Jungle Drums featurin...
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Don Clark
Peeling away the plastic wrapping around Brooklyn Rider’s Spontaneous Symbols yields a rush of dopam...
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Jillian DeGroot
The legacy of the late American composer, conductor and longtime Cornell University professor Steven...
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Andrew Stock
On October 6, 2017, New Amsterdam records released Steven Mackey’s and Jason Treuting’s inaugural co...
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Tracy Monaghan
Conrad Winslow’s impressive debut album of works, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, takes its name from F...
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James May
Daniel Lentz’s River of 1,000 Streams for piano and electronics was completed in 2016, and recorded...
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Nick Stevens
The CD case of Third Coast Percussion’s new album on New Focus Recordings of music by Philippe Manou...
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Stephanie Boyd
In their CD debut released by Cedille Records, Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet & Piano, the...
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Clare Monfredo
Ann Millikan’s imaginative and moving Millikan Symphony is an elegy to her brother, Robert C. Millik...
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Danika Paskvan
Bearthoven’s Trios (Cantaloupe Music) is an imaginative and aesthetically well-defined debut album b...
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Tristan McKay
Tracey Engleman and Lara Bolton’s Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly (Innova Recordings) takes you on a jour...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
It’s after Thanksgiving, and it’s officially December, which makes it an acceptable time...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
For better or worse, Sanctuary is the perfect title for Mario Diaz de Leon’s most recent record. Thi...
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Colin Holter
Today, we are premiering “Valentine’s” from R WE WHO R WE’s upcoming album &...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Currents Vol. 0 is everything a retrospective of an early collaborative project should be, and anyon...
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Kathleen McGowan
Back in 2011 while they were still students at Yale, cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michae...
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Gemma Peacocke
New York based composer Scott Wollschleger describes his work, Soft Aberration, in the following man...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Angel’s Bone, awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music, was premiered at the 2016 PROTOTYPE festiva...
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Lauren Ishida
Pierre Boulez led a multi-faceted career, but those of composer and conductor made him a household n...
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Don Clark
First, if you’ll allow a brief diversion before I begin this review, I must say it is good to be bac...
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Andrew Lee
With a distinct aesthetic, David Kirkland Garner’s work Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings) weaves pu...
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Kevin Baldwin
