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For Anssi Karttunen's 50th birthday in 2010, his wife, Muriel von Braun, and his dear friend, acclai...
Author
Marina Kifferstein
Composers from Schubert to Verdi to Rautavaara have set the Bard, but few composers can claim such a...
Author
Ruth Carver
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) has been called the dean of Mexican classical music, important not just fo...
Author
Don Clark
Dan Trueman's neither Anvil nor Pulley ("nAnP") opens with the old-fashioned crackle of a vinyl reco...
Author
Dana Wen
The temptation to over-intellectualize Big Farm's self-titled debut is hard to resist.—which isn't t...
Author
Evan Burke
The Chicago based quintet Gaudete Brass presents here a celebration of new, American music for brass...
Author
Justin D. Wright
My first encounter with Dan Visconti's music was courtesy of the Aeolus Quartet and their debut albu...
Author
Andrew Lee
If television’s IFC produced operas in addition to off-kilter films and quirky sitcoms, composer Ja...
Author
Daniel Kushner
In 1904 the Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt (born 1877) drowned in a flash flood in the Sahara,...
Author
Thea Derks
In the program notes for the song cycle death speaks (recording released on April 30 via Cantaloupe...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Selkie: A sea tale is a chamber opera collaboration between soprano Misha Penton and composer Elliot...
Author
George Heathco
From Pythagoras’ hammers and Boethius’ musica mundana to Beethoven’s Pastoral and Strauss’ Alpensinf...
Author
Matt Mendez
Born in Seattle in 1938, Paul Chihara's first musical experiences were in popular music forms. He ha...
Author
Don Clark
One should know about all the structures of fantasy and the fantasies of structures, and mix surpris...
Author
Matt Mendez
Nadia Sirota may very well become known as the most important violist of her generation. With elite...
Author
Daniel Kushner
The first release exclusively devoted to the music of Suzanne Farrin can be described as a quasi-aut...
Author
Xenia Pestova
Upon coming to terms with the exceptional caliber this album bears, one must be prepared for the exp...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
This is a Golem monster of musical compilations, a crazy idea that got out of control. “We are kind...
Author
Sam Zelitch
I invited David D. McIntire, composer and founder of Irritable Hedgehog, to review Leah Kardos' soph...
Author
Andrew Lee
Even as part of a scene where being more-eclectic-than-thou is a fundamental shibboleth and musical...
Author
Matt Mendez
I have uncles who fought in the Vietnam War, and I’ve never once talked to them about their wartime...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Some albums are good. They are worthy of a listen, enjoyable, and an excellent way to pass the time.
Author
Andrew Lee
The delightfully prickly Frederic Rzewski once commented somewhere that he couldn’t abide French mus...
Author
Matt Mendez
