Category: Critics

Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053   Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927)…

In a recent piece for Slate , musicologist Jan Swafford took readers on a little tour of contemporary music that…

Nothing for those slooow summer days like another round of “everything sucks/everything’s fine” wars… Courtesy of The Guardian, Joe Queenan kicks…

While Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise is winning awards over thisaway, its recent release in England gives a chance for…

Gavin Borchert, composer and the Seattle Weekly‘s classical music critic, has an interesting take in this week’s rag, on current…

If you haven’t read Galen’s rather lengthy piece called Imprecations and Exhortations: A Rather Lengthy Defense of Richard Taruskin over…

Hey, I think you and your readers at sequenza21 will like this piece we just published, by Richard Taruskin: It’s…

Norman Lebrecht is an entertaining writer who has never let the facts get in the way of a good story. …

Adam Kirsch, writing in today’s New York Sun: The critic of the serious arts — poetry, painting, music — is…

Out my (Seattle) way, local composer and Seattle Weekly columnist Gavin Borchert this week offered up something titled “Small Apologies“.…