Wordless Music Orchestra

  • 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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  • Casper Clausen with the Wordless Music Orchestra, by Joshua Bright/The New York Times Efterklang with the Wordless Music Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 22, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2012 Belatedly getting around to posting my bit on the collaboration between Danish art-pop trio Efterklang and the Wordless Music Orchestra, which

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  • Photograph: Chad Batka/The New York Times "White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony"The New York Times Artsbeat, November 19, 2010 Over the past few weeks I've reviewed several events in Lincoln Center's inaugural White Light Festival, a series devoted to exploring spirituality in music — or, more specifically, to promoting the notion that some kinds

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  • I believe.

    Jonsi and Alex, Kjartan Sveinsson, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Latvian National Choir and the Wordless Music Orchestra at the Church of St. Paul the ApostleThe New York Times, November 17, 2010

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  • Invisible touch.

    Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, and the Latvian National Choir at the Kaplan PenthouseThe New York Times, November 15, 2010 Two concerts, one saxophonist I'm glad to have heard live at last, two excellent vocal groups and one hidden hand behind it all. I profiled Manfred Eicher,

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