24
Aug
Sound and Fury
Violin concerti at Tanglewood and a new album for bassoon and bassoon and bassoon and...
7 min read
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19
Aug
Loose Baggy Monsters
Sometimes the solution to a piece being too long . . . is to make it even longer.
8 min read
10
Aug
Xenoatmospherics
Poems about the Holocaust, air from another planet, and one miraculous cricket.
10 min read
06
Aug
The Noise Point
Come for the electric guitars, stay for the ecstatic minimalism — LOUD Weekend descends on Mass MoCA!
7 min read
29
Jul
The Big Tapestry
Micropolyphony, electronic cello manipulation, pianos played with ping-pong balls — it's the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music!
14 min read
15
Jul
The Tone Poem Ascendant
Most new works these days come with evocative titles and explicit extra-musical programs. Why?
8 min read
13
Jul
Greening
A world premiere at Tanglewood and Schumann in a synagogue — summer festivals are here!
8 min read
29
Jun
Cello Upside-Down Cake
An evening of unconventional cello music, ranging from Appalachian fiddle tunes to alt-rock quartets and elecro-acoustic washes of noise.
6 min read
17
Jun
On Namedropping
On saying what new music sounds like, and also on not doing that.
8 min read
15
Jun
How to Contain the World
It’s summer, and that means it’s beach read season, and what says beach read like a dense academic treatise on some of the thorniest and most brobdingnagian works in the standard repertoire?
15 min read