The New York Times

  • Legacy tour.

    Varispeed performing in the Essex Street Market. Photograph: Michael Nagle/The New York Times "A Fresh Stamp on a Veteran Composer's Work"The New York Times, November 9, 2011 Originally this was going to be two separate, straightforward reviews of concerts in which new performers, mostly young, took up works by the veteran composer Robert Ashley. Instead,…

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  • Alive at 25.

    Bang on a Can All-Stars at Zankel HallThe New York Times, November 7, 2011 I'm happy with the shape and pace of this piece of writing, but wish I'd have finessed the details a bit more elegantly. For example, I'm very pleased with the sense of David Lang's character that comes through in the opening…

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  • Airs de cour.

    Jean-Paul Fouchécourt and Gaële Le Roi at Weill Recital HallThe New York Times, November 3, 2011 This thoroughly charming recital of French and Italian opera selections and songs was presented by the commendable Opera Lafayette, a Washington, D.C. company that specializes primarily in French opera of the Baroque and early Classical periods. Led by Ryan…

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  • Music on demand.

    The American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Joe's PubThe New York Times, October 28, 2011 This review covers a unique concert in which members of ACME played works by composers selected through a call for scores presented by the ensemble, the excellent new-music blog Sequenza21 and the Manhattan New Music Project, a non-profit music-advocacy organization. You'll…

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  • The wayward wind.

    Photograph: Richard Termine for The New York Times The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, October 20, 2011

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  • Learning to fly.

    Photograph: Julie Glassberg for The New York Times eighth blackbird at the Miller TheatreThe New York Times, October 18, 2011

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