Best of 2021 – Burned into the Orange by Peter Gilbert (CD Review)
Burned into the Orange Music of Peter Gilbert Arditti String Quartet; Iridium Quartet, Emmanuele Arciuli, piano; et al. New Focus…
Ojai Music Festival – Sunday Morning Concert
On the last day of the Ojai Music Festival, the 11:00 AM morning concert featured the LA Philharmonic New Music…
Ojai Music Festival – Friday Evening
The Ojai Music Festival was re-scheduled this year from the traditional June to mid-September as a result of the continuing…
City of Tomorrow on New Focus (CD Review)
City of Tomorrow Blow New Focus Records The City of Tomorrow is a woodwind quintet dedicated to 20/21 music,…
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Live, in person and new: Contemporary music festivals in the Northeast in Summer 2021
LOUD Weekend, TIME:SPANS, Tanglewood and Bard are all back on stage this summer with in-person audiences Fans starved for live…
Attacca Quartet – Real Life (CD Review)
Attacca Quartet Real Life Sony Music CD/DL Kronos Quartet excepted, there have been a lot of really bad arrangements…
Kenneth Kirschner, Joseph Branciforte – From the Machine Vol. 1
The {greyfade} recording label has recently released From the Machine Vol. 1, a new digital and vinyl album of contemporary…
Podcast: Voices of the Pearl
This podcast examines Voices of the Pearl, a particularly interesting project that combines the rediscovery of ancient religious texts, the…
counter)induction
Against Method Counter)induction – Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Miranda Cuckson, violin; Jessica Meyer, viola; Caleb van der Swaagh, cello, Randall Zigler,…
Kopatchinskaya and Hong perform Kurtág in Seattle
Few composers have embraced the Webernian aesthetic of brevity more closely than the Hungarian György Kurtág (b.1926). Starting with his…