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King Crimson – Thrak (Virgin) Taake – Stridens Hus (Candlelight < Bandcamp) Taake – Noregs Vaapen (Candlelight < Bandcamp) John Mackey – Wine-Dark Sea – University of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry F. Junkin (YouTube) Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique (Con) (M=minimal) Arnold Schoenberg – Concerto for Piano; Concerto for Violin – Peter Serkin, Pierre Amoyal, London…
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Porcupine Tree – Signify (Kscope) Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier (Sanctuary) King Crimson – Beat (Virgin) Radu Malfatti – darenootodesuka – Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble (b-boim) Fraufraulein – Extinguishment (Another Timbre) Robert Rich – Filaments (Soundscape) Radu Malfatti – Tokyo Sextet (2005): Electronic Version – Taku Unami (Slub Music) King Crimson – Three of a…
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Olivia Block, by Richard Termine for The New York Times Newer Music bonus track As reported for my Newer Music column in the Boston Globe yesterday, sound artist Jason Lescalleet is launching a quarterly duo-concert residency at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, this Saturday night with the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a composition jointly…
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Jason Lescalleet, by Tim Bugbee "Lescalleet fosters community on CD and new concert series"Boston GlobeApril 14, 2015 The sixth episode in the continuing saga of Newer Music focuses on Jason Lescalleet, a performer whose work made an impression on me years ago and still does. I recall vividly instances of Lescalleet's visceral, almost violent approach…
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Book review: Philip Glass, 'Words Without Music'Boston GlobeApril 12, 2015 Scanning the many reviews of Philip Glass's new memoir since I filed my own report last week, I think it's safe to say that we're mostly all on the same page, so to speak: charmed by Glass's early history, less than overwhelmed by his travel…
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King Crimson – Red (DGM) Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Concerto; String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130: V. Cavatina – Adagio molto espressivo; Grosse Fuge – Yehudi Menuhin, Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Archipel) Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10 – Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vassily Petrenko (Naxos) Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem – New Philharmonia Orchestra/Benjamin…
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King Crimson – Islands (DGM) King Crimson – Earthbound (Virgin) François Couperin – Les Nations – Juilliard Baroque (Naxos) Yotam Haber – We Were All; Last Skin – Contemporaneous; On Leaving Brooklyn – Mireille Asselin, Meg Guth, Javier Abreu, Scott Dispensa, Harumi Rhodes; Torus – Mivos Quartet; From the Book of Maintenance and Sustenance –…
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Yarn/Wire, by Bobby Fisher This almost was called The Rest Is News. Among the great many kindnesses that Alex Ross has shown me during our years of collegial labor are his occasional nods to my notorious list-making penchant. Mulling what to call this latest addition to my own blog, in which I'll round up some…
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Roger Sessions – Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 – Columbus Symphony Orchestra/Christian Badea (New World) Roger Sessions – Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 9 – American Composers Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies (Argo) Roger Sessions – Symphony No. 8 – American Symphony Orchestra/Leon Botstein (New World) Beat Furrer – Aer – Trio Catch; …cold and calm and…
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The Nile Project, by Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe The Nile Project at Tsai Performance Center, March 27, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 30, 2015 I'm reasonably sure that I didn't use the word fad when I filed this review, since that term doesn't accurately portray my feelings about artistic and cultural fusion, which can be a…
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So, Andrew Norman's "Play" might be the best orchestral work that the 21st century has seen thus far — Will Robin (@seatedovation) December 20, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js We have Andrew Norman to thank, and Will Robin, too, for Symphomania, the 24-hour marathon of 21st-century orchestral music that web radio station Q2 Music streamed on March 24…
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Yarn/Wire/Currents Vol. 1 by Yarn/Wire A Winged Victory for the Sullen – A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Kranky) King Crimson – Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 31, 1981 (DGMLive) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A (K. 319); Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor – Hilary Hahn,…
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Tania León, by Niels Leiser NEW MUSIC BOSTONApril 2015 (Updated March 22) 1 Pierluigi Billone residencyVerticale Muto; Mani. MattaMike Williams, percussion; [sound icon]College of Fine Arts Concert Hall, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston8 p.m.Free admissionMore information Philip GlassWords Without Music: A Conversation with Philip GlassBerklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston7 p.m.$30, includes signed…
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"A Winged Victory for the Sullen celebrates serendipity"Boston GlobeMarch 21, 2015 The fifth installment of my monthly Newer Music column is out today, and covers the ambient cum post-classical chamber music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, from Stars of the Lid, and Dustin O'Halloran, of Devics. The duo and their…
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King Crimson – Live at the Marquee, August 10, 1971 (King Crimson Collectors' Club/DGM) Peter Ablinger – Drei Minuten für Orchester (from Altar) – SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Sylvain Cambreling (YouTube) Helmut Lachenmann – Schreiben – London Sinfonietta/Brad Lubman (YouTube) Isabel Mundry – Penelopes Atem – Salome Kammer, Teodoro Anzellotti, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Sylvain Cambreling…
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Pierluigi Billone – 1+1=1 – Petra Stump, Heinz-Peter Linshalm (Kairos < YouTube) Pierluigi Billone – ME A AN – Frank Wörner, ensemble recherche/Peter Hirsch; ITI KE MI – Barbara Maurer (Stradivarius) Pierluigi Billone – Mani. De Leonardis; Mani. Mono; Mani. Matta – Adam Weisman (ein_klang) Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring (Blue Note) Dire Straits –…
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The author, daughter, and Lee Konitz, by Limor Tomer Annina didn't make it quite to the end of the lovely set that Lee Konitz, a saxophonist who actually warrants the tag "legendary," played with pianist Dan Tepfer at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Much as I would have liked to hear it, I…
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Virgil Thomson "…reviews, though couched in opinion—which is what makes them either illuminating or maddening but also, one hopes, compelling and worth debating—are fundamentally reportage. They are the chronicles of the cultural world, accounts of who did what on a given night, in a given hall, before hundreds or thousands of people interested enough to…
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