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Album
If there’s anyone who can pull off a 3-disc compilation of contemporary music for solo cello s...
Author
Joanne Lam
Four hands piano music is the rhinoceros of classical chamber music. Once widespread, it has almost...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y...
Author
Christian Gentry
At some point, whether it be for reasons personal, professional, or purely psychological, most compo...
Author
Danny Clay
Composer Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever seems to rest at the apex of nihilistic thought an...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Riding along the highway at 70 mph, the air conditioning chilling you to the bone, RighteousGIRLS’ n...
Author
Jackson Cooper
The late Ann Southam (1937-2010) is an iconic figure in Canadian composition, and the solo piano cyc...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Set aside any preconceived notions of what is “classical music” and listen to Dreamfall, NOW Ensembl...
Author
Don Clark
In today’s eclectically-aural world, rarely is a reviewer afforded the opportunity to rectify the mi...
Author
Norman Cahn
Following up his 2009 debut album, Enter Houses Of (on John Zorn’s Tzadik label), Minnesota-bo...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elementa...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
Solo pianist Bruce Levingston‘s Heavy Sleep, released this year on the Sono Luminus label, car...
Author
Curtis Perry
The debate between absolute and programmatic music has been a point of contention for several centur...
Author
Norman Cahn
Titles that make any sort of bold claim usually push me away. When I was asked to review Powerhouse...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Composition is such a solitary act. So much so that we can easily forget just how huge and diverse t...
Author
Jay Derderian
Pianist, composer and educator Nils Vigeland (b. 1950) was born in Buffalo, NY into a musical family...
Author
Don Clark
Confronted with the title “A Space Odyssey,” memories of HAL 9000’s all-knowing red gaze and my own...
Author
Norman Cahn
Imagine a lava lamp. Shivering globules ooze around a tightly defined glass case in a state of amorp...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
synesthesia | sinəsˈTHēZHə | n. the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part o...
Author
Justin Rito
Like the swirling masses of clouds that momentarily amass over Sumatran rainforests (those cumulus b...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
What distinguishes good from outstanding in a performing artist? It seems that the best performers h...
Author
Amanda Cook
Everything about Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities project is stylishly executed. Judging from...
Author
Richard Barnard
Marcel Proust, his memory kindled by a simple madeleine cookie, characterizes my musical experience...
Author
Norman Cahn
