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Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Volume 1: The Mosque, Richmond, VA 5/25/77 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) Benjamin Finger – Motion Reverse (Shimmering Moods) Jay Batzner – as if to each other… – R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog < Bandcamp) Skogen – ist gefallen in den Schnee (Another Timbre) Skogen – Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long (Another…
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A Gossamer Bit by Allison Cameron and Contact King Crimson – Park West, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 1981 (DGMLive) Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians – Steve Reich and Musicians (Nonesuch) King Crimson – Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Nov. 10, 1981 (DGMLive) Grateful Dead – The Ark, Boston, MA, April 21, 1969 (Archive.org)…
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Chris Squire, by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire. #yes — Geoffrey Downes (@asiageoff) June 28, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Farewell, Chris Squire. I came to Yes late, but made up for lost time, and I…
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King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 7, 1981, first house (DGMLive) Jennifer Koh – Bach & Beyond, Part 2 (Cedille)(Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata No. 1 in G minor; Partita No. 1 in B minor; Béla Bartók – Sonata for Solo Violin; Kaija Saariaho – Frises) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.…
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x-ray three: Amorosa Sensitiva by Benjamin Finger Lamb of God – New American Gospel (Prosthetic) King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 6, 1981, second house (DGMLive) Jean Sibelius – Overture in A minor; Kuolema – complete incidental music; Two Songs from Twelfth Night; Kung Kristian II – complete incidental music – Pia…
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King Crimson – The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 6, 1981, first house (DGMLive) Michael Bates – Northern Spy (Stereoscopic) David Bowie – Nothing Has Changed (Columbia/Legacy) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Vol. 1: The Mosque, Richmond, VA 5/25/77 (Grateful Dead) Sly & the Family Stone – Live at the Fillmore East October 4th &…
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Matthew Aucoin, by Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe NEW MUSIC BOSTONJune 2015 (Updated June 1) 1 Chris Watford + Transient CanvasPresented by Equilibrium Concert SeriesMusic by Beau Kenyon, Timothy McCormack, Zach Sheets, and Scott WollschlegerDavis Square Theatre, 255 Elm St., Somerville8 p.m.$10More information 2 American Repertory TheaterMatthew Aucoin, CrossingRod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer…
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Yes – Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland, July 8, 2004 (YouTube) Yes – Boston Garden, Boston, MA, June 19, 1979 (audience recording < YouTube) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 – Berlin Philharmonic/Günter Wand (RCA Red Seal) Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9 – New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classical) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No.…
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Animals Out of Place by Jonathan Marmor Jason Lescalleet – This Is What I Do, Vol. 8 (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp) Jonathan Marmor – Animals Out of Place (self-released < Bandcamp)(Cattle in the Woods – Johnny Chang, Joe Drew, Quentin Tolimieri, Devin Maxwell, James Moore, Travis Just; Animal Play – Mimitabu; Penguin Atlas of African…
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Jack DeJohnette (center) and Made in Chicago, by Wes Orshoski/ECM Records Even when looking back, Jack DeJohnette forges aheadBoston GlobeMay 17, 2015 For the featured jazz story in today's Summer Arts Preview issue of the Boston Globe, a brief but event-filled article about jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer Jack DeJohnette, who brings his legend-studded quintet…
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John Luther Adams – Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing – Apollo Chamber Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (New World) King Crimson – Painters Mill Theatre, Owings Mills, MD, Nov. 4, 1981 (DGMLive) Grisha Shakhnes – All this trouble for nothing (Glistening Examples) Martin Scherzinger – African Math – Tom Rosenkranz, Chris Gross, Jen Choi (New Focus) Susan…
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Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik) Kansas – Power (MCA) Kansas – In the Spirit of Things (MCA) King Crimson – Live at the Orpheum (DGM) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks, Vol. 14: Academy of Music, New York, NY 3/26/72 (Grateful Dead/Rhino) Grateful Dead – Dave's Picks 2015 Bonus Disc (Grateful Dead/Rhino) "The…
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Keith Lockhart, by Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe "After 20 years, Keith Lockhart keeping the Pops youthful"Boston GlobeMay 5, 2015 My front-page story about Keith Lockhart and his eventful journey to the Boston Pops, with which institution he celebrates his 20th anniversary in a spring season that starts tonight (May 6) with a swanky concert featuring Bernadette…
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Georges Aperghis, by Charlotte Oswald NEW MUSIC BOSTONMay 2015 (Updated May 13) 1 Boston Conservatory Wind EnsembleDavid Fulmer, Rotaries; Edgard Varèse, Déserts; Ron Nelson, Rocky Point Holiday; plus music by RespighiEric Hewitt, conductorBoston Conservatory Theater, 8 the Fenway, Boston8 p.m.FREEMore information Alisa Weilerstein & Inon BarnatanJoseph Hallman, DreamLog; plus works by Beethoven, Schubert, and RachmaninoffPresented…
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Live at ESS 12/6/2013 by cinchel Sebastian Fagerlund – Violin Concerto ("Darkness in Light"); Ignite – Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu (BIS) Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik) Los Angeles Percussion Quartet – The Year Before Yesterday (Sono Luminus)(William Kraft – Fore!; Shaun Naidoo – The Year Before Yesterday; Erik Griswold…
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Album review: Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Never were the way she wasBoston GlobeApril 28, 2015 Proclaimed "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the avant-garde saxophone world" in a concert review by some wag who used to write for The New York Times, Colin Stetson has made a beautiful new record with his Arcade Fire colleague…
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King Crimson – The ConstruKction of Light (Virgin) Cecil Taylor – The Complete Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (FMP < Bandcamp; due May 5) Project X – Heaven and Earth (EGM) Mercyful Fate – Don't Break the Oath (Roadrunner) Koes Barat – Koes Barat (Sub Pop) Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in…
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Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block: Sonorous Vessels3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NHApril 18, 2015 Sound artists Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block collaborated for the first time in the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a new piece inspired by and extending upon Alvin Lucier's Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels, on Saturday night at 3S Artspace in…
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