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Album
Crazy, a song cycle by T. Patrick Carrabré, seeks to explore the line necessary in the creative proc...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Music doesn’t have to tell a story. However, when people collaborate to create music, the music ofte...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Scott Johnson’s Mind Out of Matter (Tzadik) is, among other things, an atheist oratorio. Most (but n...
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Colin Holter
The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s (GVSUNME) newest album, RETURN, features the...
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Matthew Younglove
Today’s track premiere comes to us via the composer-performer ensemble Invisible Anatomy: Dani...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
With their debut album Passage (New Focus Recordings, 2017), the members of the string trio Longleas...
Author
Kathleen McGowan
“To D. Scarlatti (1685–1757) with apologies”—so composer Erik Lotichius (1929–2015) dedicated his An...
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Jeremiah Cawley
Music should be so transparent that one can see the bottom and that poetry shimmers through this tra...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
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...
Author
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...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Conrad Winslow’s impressive debut album of works, The Perfect Nothing Catalog, takes its name from F...
Author
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
