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Album
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
A soloist with collaborative roots Jeffrey Zeigler’s recent solo album Something of Life illustrates...
Author
Christian Gentry
In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
Author
Justin Rito
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a $140 million construc...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
If, like me, you've been into Corey Dargel's music for a long time, you might have been wondering wh...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
In this imaginatively programmed disc from eOne Productions, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and conduct...
Author
Don Clark
Angels and Watermarks is the latest self-released album (Snow Leopard Music) by Howard Hersh, an Ame...
Author
Joanne Lam
When discussing arts and culture, one often hears the phrase "the work speaks for itself" thrown aro...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Since their formation in 2010, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble has dedicated itself to commission...
Author
Jason Charney
Dosia McKay is no stranger to success - her compositions have been premiered at universities and gal...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
Often the viola is not thought of as a solo instrument. It is the connecting timbre between violin a...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
In the introduction to her 2013 book Chasing Sound, author Susan Schmidt Horning states: “The evolut...
Author
Amanda Cook
Founded by students of the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama in 2001, the Dublin Guitar Quartet...
Author
Norman Cahn
Sure, it’s sort of a bromide, but it’s apt: what was once old is new again. Along with a resurgence...
Author
Thomas Dempster
Practically every work by composer Anthony Davis could have been composed today. Long, overlapping r...
Author
Thomas Dempster
Xenia Pestova is a pianist who actively promotes and performs new works of music. Additionally, she...
Author
Nick Arner
The FLUX Quartet have masterfully laid claim to the complete string quartets of Morton Feldman, beco...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
It wasn’t until seventh grade that I met my first violin teacher; before then, I was largely self-ta...
Author
Norman Cahn
It is an all too familiar scene: patrons travel to a grandiose hall to hear a major symphony orchest...
Author
Amanda Cook
