Category
Concert
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
On March 3, NYC new music hotspot The Kitchen packed the house for the final performance of the worl...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Gene Pritsker is a musician who understands the importance of frequent experimentation when devising...
Author
Evan Burke
The third concert in the San Francisco Symphony’s American Marvericks series (fourth if the new Harr...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
On Saturday, February 25th, Roomful of Teeth gave an exciting concert on the Ecstatic Music Festival...
Author
Lauren Ishida
2012 is an important year for Bang on a Can and it looks like it will be paved with a series of exci...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
