Padma Newsome

  • Soloists and the Orchestra for the Next Century, by Tina Fineberg/The New York Times Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall, February 6, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2013 Given that Penelope, a large-scale song cycle composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider and sung by Shara Worden and recorded for the New Amsterdam record label,

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  • Hybrid sounds.

    "There's a Theorbo in the Rock Bin"The New York Times, April 18, 2010 A review of new albums by three category-defying groups: Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker (pictured). Each group blurs an increasingly meaningless boundary between contemporary classical music and alternative rock; each disc, in its own way, is more or less a departure for

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