Liveblogging the BOAC Marathon
So I happened to be in the city over the weekend and didn’t have any interviews or other meetings today,…
Review: Don Freund’s PASSION With Tropes
Full disclosure is necessary up front: last year I had the pleasure of studying composition with Don Freund at the…
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players: musically devoted to the beauty found in “caviar” as well as in the “potatoes” of music repertoire.
Now in their 10th season, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players have earned their special place in New York City music…
Akhnaten at Long Beach Opera
If you have the slightest interest in contemporary opera or modern drama, you must see Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, scheduled for…
Full passages and empty passions
Last Saturday night I caught a trio of Philip Glass‘s slightly more obscure music, performed by a well-rehearsed Pacific Symphony and Pacific…
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Peeking into Other Minds
[The latest iteration of the always-stellar Other Minds festival is now done and in the books. We asked our equally-stellar…
In Memory of My Feelings
Music is as much of a time art as reading or looking at pictures because its subject, as John Ashbery…
David Bruce: The Next Osvaldo Golijov?
I had never heard of David Bruce until I was assigned to review a concert by Art of Elan, a…
New music heard in San Diego recently
They’ve been piling up, my reviews at sandiego.com, to be passed on to you here. Lots of good music heard…
New York Philharmonic performs Kraft by Magnus Lindberg
[As part of my residency at the NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera, I had to write an…