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Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

Dec 30, 2017 Christian Carey

Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053 Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927) served as one of his generation’s fixtures on the West…

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Cage and Beyond

Oct 26, 2012 George Grella

Just before intermission of the opening concert of the Beyond Cage Festival on October 22, I pulled out my iPhone to see if the Giants were beating the Cardinals for…

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Ruggles: An American Rarity

Sep 24, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

If you were having a conversation with fellow music lovers about the great American composers, Carl Ruggles would not be the first person to come to mind. The “Great American…

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New Noises Hardly Explained

Jul 12, 2011 Armando Bayolo

In a recent piece for Slate , musicologist Jan Swafford took readers on a little tour of contemporary music that has yielded a fair share of controversy. Mind you, that…

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Levine leaving BSO, but show goes on with Birtwistle premiere

Mar 3, 2011 Christian Carey

We’re saddened to learn of James Levine’s cancellation of the rest of his appearances this season at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and his resignation from the post of BSO Music…

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New music heard in San Diego recently

Jan 19, 2011 Christian Hertzog

They’ve been piling up, my reviews at sandiego.com, to be passed on to you here. Lots of good music heard the past three months: San Diego Symphony plays Remembering Gatsby…

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Bright Sheng and Anthony Newman premieres at La Jolla Summerfest

Aug 12, 2010 Christian Hertzog

Older readers may recall with fondness Edgar Bergen, a very popular American entertainer who poured his comic routines through ventriloquist dummies named Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Edgar so loved…

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Same Old Story for a New Age

Nov 25, 2008 Steve Layton

Luke Gullickson is a composer, pianist, and writer currently working on a Master’s in composition at UT in Austin, Texas. He keeps a blog, Sonatas and Interludes, where he recently…