Morton Feldman

  • >>news added to the end of this post…<< The Morton Feldman Piano box by Philip Thomas on Another Timbre unquestionably is among this year’s foremost achievements… but Philip has another new CD that's worth your attention, as well: as if as features original compositions and Derek Bailey transcriptions (!!) by Chris Burn, just out on

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  • BBC Singers, by John Wood Classical Playlist: John Adams, Prokofiev, Harrison Birtwistle and MoreThe New York Times ArtsBeat, March 12, 2014 My contributions: MORTON FELDMAN: ‘For Philip Guston’ John Tilbury, pianist; Carla Rees, flutist; Simon Allen, percussionist (Atopos) HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: ‘The Moth Requiem’ Roderick Williams, baritone; BBC Singers, Nash Ensemble, conducted by Nicholas Kok (Signum)

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  • Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava at Alice Tully Hall, November 5, 2012The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2012 Posted here belatedly because sometimes there aren't enough hours in a day, a week or a life, this is a review of the only night I attended in Petr Kotik's

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  • Morton Feldman: 'Crippled Symmetry'The Feldman Soloists.Frozen Reeds fr 1/2; two CDsThe New York Times, Sept. 30, 2012 When I bought my copy of this superb new recording just under two months ago, mail order direct from the label was among your few options for acquiring it. It's still a good one, but U.S. record collectors

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  • Ripples.

    Blair McMillen at BargemusicThe New York Times, December 6, 2011 Alex Ross has a report on Blair McMillen's previous performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories at Bargemusic, presented in July.

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  • Wonderland in Alice.

    "At Tully Hall, the Norm Is a Festival"The New York Times, February 20, 2011 A very short preview of Lincoln Center's Tully Scope Festival, which celebrates the diverse range of things that Alice Tully Hall already does well, while also suggesting some of the ways in which Lincoln Center is trying to make better use

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  • Photograph by Richard Termine/The New York Times Ne(x)tworks at 110 Livingston StreetThe New York Times, April 13, 2009 And we're back, after the longest break I've ever taken from blogging. Let's not dwell on the reasons why I haven't posted anything since late December; suffice it to say that for the first few months I

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