July 2017

Classical Music Composers Conductors Contemporary Classical Festivals File Under? Interviews Orchestras

Interview: Julia Adolphe

July 24, 2017 Christian Carey

This week, The New York Philharmonic premieres their second commission by composer Julia Adolphe. The first, 2016’s Unearth, Release, was a warmly received viola concerto for Philharmonic Principal Violist Cynthia…

Books Contemporary Classical Experimental Music File Under?

Required Reading: Experimental Music Since 1970

July 22, 2017 Christian Carey

Book Review: Experimental Music Since 1970 By Jennie Gottschalk Bloomsbury, 2016 284 pp. From the very beginning of Experimental Music Since 1970, author Jennie Gottschalk lets us know that her…

Contemporary Classical

Opera Parallele Presents Glass/Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles

July 20, 2017 Michael McDonagh

Our Buddhist friends like to remind us that the idea that we are separate is an illusion and not a fact but try telling that to anybody anywhere these days…

CD Review CDs Chamber Music Choral Music Contemporary Classical File Under?

Kurtág on ECM

July 20, 2017 Christian Carey

György Kurtág Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir Asko | Schönberg and Netherlands Radio Choir; Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor ECM Records 3xCD 2505-07 Composer György Kurtág was born in Transylvania,…

CDs Concerts File Under? jazz New York

Aaron Parks Trio at Smalls

July 6, 2017 Christian Carey

Aaron Parks Trio Smalls Live June 16, 2017 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Nestled snuggly in the midst of Greenwich Village, Smalls Live is an intimate space, but a…

Concert review Contemporary Classical Los Angeles

Brightwork newmusic at Monk Space

July 5, 2017 Paul Muller

On June 27, 2017 Tuesdays@Monk Space hosted a concert titled The Flood. A full house gathered on a warm Koreatown evening to hear works by five contemporary Southern California composers…

Interview: Julia Adolphe

Required Reading: Experimental Music Since 1970

Opera Parallele Presents Glass/Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles

Kurtág on ECM

Aaron Parks Trio at Smalls

Brightwork newmusic at Monk Space

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