Electronics and improvisation
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John Weise of Sissy Spacek, by Amoeba Records NEW MUSIC BOSTONJuly 2015 (Posted July 11, and very much an attempt in progress this month…) We're late, and with more cause than usual. Rather than the characteristic attempt to catalog all of the myriad, wonderful new-music offerings coming up in Boston and the surrounding area,
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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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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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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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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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Christian Wolff NEW MUSIC BOSTONMarch 2015 (Updated March 21) 8 Boston Civic SymphonyThomas Oboe Lee, Trumpet Concerto (world premiere); Stephen Burns, Fanfare for Freedom; plus works by Honegger and BerliozStephen Burns, trumpet; Taichi Fukumura, conductorJordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston2 p.m.$15-$40More information Brand New Music/New Music BrandeisEmily Koh, smidgen(S); Victoria Cheah, Tell:Abschied; Gleb Kanasevich, suono
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[I intended to post this here on Monday, but the DDoS hacker attack on Typepad put paid to that notion, so I posted this on Facebook. Here it is, in case you missed it before now.—Steve] A new baby…a new work status…and now, a new job. What started with a simple email I received a
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Truth be told, there wasn't a lot happening on Monday or Tuesday night, thanks to the convergence of Holy Week and Tax Day. Still, late is late, and late is frustrating – I'm still trying to get the hang of a schedule in serious flux, and there are new developments afoot as well. So much
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This week's agenda – delayed due to circumstances beyond my control, and reined-in because of my family's arrival in NYC to meet the newest member of the clan – includes just two events, both tomorrow night. That said, they're unquestionably meaty items. Tuesday, March 25: Jacob GreenbergSpectrum; 7:30pm; $15 Tuesday, March 25: Reinier van HoudtSpectrum;
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John Zorn: Masada Book 3 at the Town Hall, March 19, 2014The New York Times, March 21, 2014 The biggest surprise about this particular concert was the fact that I was there; I'd originally been scheduled to cover a different event, but a sick colleague prompted a last-minute shuffle, and here we are. Because of
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A week of big orchestral concerts ahead for coverage in The New York Times, and, as ever, plenty that I'd like to see were sleeplessness (well, additional sleeplessness) or cloning available options. Wednesday, March 12: New York PhilharmonicAvery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; 7:30pm; $39–$59 Alan Gilbert and the Phil continue the outstanding cycle of Carl
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We had already agreed in principle that the entire structure of the piece would be derived from Mozart’s 40th Symphony, and that obviously, “White Metal” should carry a variation of the concept “Black Metal” and the term “white noise”.—Miguel Prado Having declared last week in my initial Wandelwatching post that this series of essays is
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After more than a month off the beat—and after a quiet soft-start (in multiple senses) with the very impressive opening event of the new series Music for Contemplation last Saturday night—I'm finally heading back out into concert life. There are three events on my agenda this week: two on assignment for The New York Times,
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Suzanne Ciani Having taken 2013 off to venture into world domination elsewhere around the globe, the Unsound Festival plants its flag anew in New York City in early April. I wrote about this groundbreaking Polish fest and its founder, Mat Schulz, for The New York Times in 2010, so I'll refer you to that article
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The New York Times building, by Richard Drew/AP I'd intended to make the previous "Days between" post the last…until such time as I once again fall so badly behind that I can't locate the 10 to 15 minutes it takes to flog a bit of my writing for The New York Times here on my
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The third and, for now, last next to last in a brief series, this post collects all of my writing for The New York Times between my report on the American Symphony Orchestra concert of November 17 and the collective article "Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades," both of which I posted
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