Music should be so transparent that one can see the bottom and that poetry shimmers through this transparency. (Valentin Silvestrov) Seldom..
Tag Archives: ECM
“Thanks for this royal gift,” writes György Kurtág (b. 1926) in the album on which Reinbert de Leeuw conducts all..
The new album Bells for the South Side, released by ECM Records on June 16, 2017, features multi-instrumentalist, composer, and..
In her liner notes to On Behalf of Nature (ECM), Meredith Monk cites poet Gary Snyder’s essay “Writers and the..
Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elemental and constant. Vast distances..
George Lewis Has Spent His Career Creating Space for Black Musicians -- His New Opera is No Exception
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ListN Up Playlist: Mason Bynes (October 24, 2024)
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Out of Context #5: Appreciation vs. Appropriation of Cultural Musical Objects
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The Ethics of a Personal Canon: Resisting the Lifestyle-ification of Music
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The Contemporary Classical Composer's Bullshit Generator
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