Kronos Quartet – Mỹ Lai (CD Review)
Mỹ Lai Kronos Quartet Smithsonian Folkways In one of its most ambitious projects to date, Kronos Quartet has recorded Mỹ Lai, an opera by composer Jonathan Berger (Professor at Stanford…
John Luther Adams – Houses of the Wind
Cold Blue Music has released Houses of the Wind, a new album of electro-acoustic music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams. This was inspired by a 1989 recording of…
James Romig’s The Complexity of Distance (CD Review)
James Romig The Complexity of Distance Mike Scheidt, electric guitar New World Records James Romig is best known for his solo piano piece Still, an hour long meditation on the…
John Tilbury Plays Terry Riley
Terry Riley Keyboard Studies John Tilbury, piano, harpsichord, celeste, and electric organ Another Timbre In addition to their impressive catalog of music of the moment, the past recordings that are…
Adams Boxed Set Listening Party
John Adams Collected Works Boxed Set 40XCDs Nonesuch What a seventy-fifth birthday present. Today, Nonesuch releases John Adams Collected Works, a 40-CD compendium of his recordings for the label and…
Chelsea Music Festival features music by Edmund Finnis alongside Fanny and Felix
Tonight, June 28, 2022, the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City brings their annual festival to a close. The theme of the festival is, “Not Without You,” and the…
Ojai Music Festival – McIntosh and Aucoin
On Saturday, June11, 2022 the Ojai Music Festival evening concert featured Little Jimmy, by Andrew McIntosh along with Deep Water Trawling and Family Dinner, both by Matthew Aucoin. The Libbey…
Žibuoklê Martinaitytê – Ex Tenebris Lux (CD Review)
Žibuoklê Martinaitytê Ex Tenebris Lux Pavel Gunter, percussion; Rokas Vaitkevičius, cello Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Karolis Variakojis, conductor Ondine Ex Tenebris Lux is the second portrait recording in as many years…
Ojai Music Festival – Julius Eastman
The 75th anniversary edition of the Ojai Music Festival opened on June 9 and ran through June 12, 2022. A full program was scheduled by Music Director Zack Winokur including…
Ian Dicke – Roman
On June 4 and 5, the Synchromy Opera Festival presented two world premieres that explored the impact of modern technology on human relationships. The first of these, The Double, by…