American Contemporary Music Ensemble

  • The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, and album reviews prevail, mostly. Here's my latest, from the April 13 issue, covering The experience of repetition as death, the second full-length album by cellist Clarice Jensen. The third release overall in her swiftly ascendant career as

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  • ACME, by Michael Appleton/The New York Times American Contemporary Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge, September 11, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2012 This one posed difficulties, and one most of all: It was hard to get over my pre-existing feelings of ambivalence toward Steve Reich's WTC 9/11 — its methods, tone and message —

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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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