Category
Concert
Last March, and for two nights only, Brooklyn Village was performed in Downtown Brooklyn. Advertised...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
One would think that music and spoken word are two of the most complimentary art forms. They seem li...
Author
Evan Burke
The concluding concert in Composers Inc.’s season took place on April 24 at San Francisco’s Old Firs...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Throughout his career, much ink has been spilled concerning Fazil Say's place at a cultural crossroa...
Author
Evan Burke
Violinist Aisha Orazbayeva presented a compelling programme of contemporary violin works on April 23...
Author
Steven Berryman
As this season was drawing to an end, the Metropolitan Museum was announcing the next, a couple of w...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The small audience who braved a rare San Francisco thunderstorm to get to Redshift’s concert on Apri...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Classical guitar is a pain in the ass. The way you're meant to sit: weird/humiliating. The disparity...
Author
Elias Blumm
I used to be able to count the number of profound, live musical experiences I've had on one hand. It...
Author
Andrew Lee
Sunday April first (no joke!) was the fifth annual Switchboard Music Festival. One of several new mu...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Chinese composers, writing in the second half of the twentieth century, faced a problem: how to writ...
Author
Evan Burke
"A younger generation of New Zealand composers ... have abandoned the country's Romantic search for...
Author
Steven Berryman
Bassoon, trombone, tuba, double bass, cello – in many musical textures, low voices are employed as a...
Author
Rob Wendt
Ask a fan of The Mountain Goats what they listen for in the music of John Darnielle and there's a ve...
Author
Elias Blumm
More than anything else, words like natural and effortless come to mind when listening to Chris Thil...
Author
Evan Burke
It is not everyday that an American icon turns 75. Of course, Elliott Carter turned 103 last Decembe...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Norman S. Benzaquen Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music has the appearance of a spruc...
Author
Elias Blumm
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Ensemble Resonanz lit up the Ij Haven last night in Amsterdam's Muzikgebouw...
Author
Rob Wendt
I always find it interesting to read discussions on the validity of extended techniques and less con...
Author
Steven Berryman
The final concert of the San Francisco Symphony’s Mavericks festival began with Steve Reich’s Music...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
In keeping with the idea of the Mavericks Festival presenting “new classics,” the entire first half...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho is in residence at Carnegie Hall this season, and this past Monday n...
Author
David Pearson
