The Marian Consort Miller Theatre Early Music Series Church of Saint Mary the Virgin February 13, 2026 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – The Marian Consort are a highly-regarded vocal ensemble, specializing both in early music and recent repertoire. The former was on offer in their performance last Thursday as part of Miller Theatre’s Early Music Series. The program was titled “City of Echoes – Rome in the Sixteenth Century,” and all of the music was performed in the city during this time period. While the program included works from three generations of composers – those relatively contemporaneous to
Read moreSeattle Symphony‘s 2026–27 season was released today. From a contemporary music standpoint it continues the cautious approach that has thus far characterized the Xian Zhang era. There are two new commissions slated for the subscription series: a Concerto for Orchestra by this year’s Artist in Focus Steven Mackey and a timpani concerto by the LA Philharmonic’s principal timpanist Joseph Pereira (which will be paired with the Mozart Requiem). Ludovic Morlot will return in October after a year’s hiatus with the piano concerto No Such Spring (2022) by Samuel Adams (son of John Adams and husband of the Symphony’s Associate Concertmaster
Read moreFrom its very first shimmer, Nova Atlantis feels like a threshold slowly brightening, a sonic coastline where centuries meet and dissolve into one another rather than remaining neatly on opposite shores. Miako Klein, moving between Baroque violin, recorder, and electronics, and Jia Lim, tending a replica harpsichord entwined with circuitry, do not merely revive the past or ornament the present. They braid them into a single breathing organism whose pulse is at once archival and prophetic. The album drifts outward from Francis Bacon’s unfinished 1626 vision of a knowledge-bound utopia, yet it refuses the posture of illustration. Instead, Bacon’s imagined
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Adés Conducts the New York Philharmonic David Geffen Hall January 24, 2026 Published in Sequenza 21 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Thomas Adés is best known as a composer, but he is a talented conductor as well. Leading the New York Philharmonic in a program of recent works and a neglected early twentieth century piece, his approach was effusive and commanding, with a versatile and fluid gestural repertoire. The orchestra’s musicians always play at a high standard, but their performance on last Saturday’s concert was superlative, and given the challenges posed by the programmed pieces, all the more
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