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A Short Piece about Long Play 2024

May 3, 2024 Gail Wein

Long Play …. Not long enough! This year’s Long Play schedule is particularly dizzying. The annual festival presented by Bang on a Can in Brooklyn, now in its third year,…

CD Review Contemporary Classical File Under? Percussion

Tony Oliver plays James Romig’s Spaces (CD Review)

February 25, 2023 Christian Carey

Spaces James Romig Tony Oliver, vibraphone Sawyer Editions James Romig’s music has become more expansive. Spaces (2021) is his third recent piece to run over an hour in duration. Still…

CD Review Cello Contemporary Classical File Under? Percussion

Žibuoklê Martinaitytê – Ex Tenebris Lux (CD Review)

June 23, 2022 Christian Carey

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…

CD Review Contemporary Classical File Under? Percussion Performers

Steven Schick – A Hard Rain (CD Review)

June 8, 2022 Christian Carey

Steven Schick A Hard Rain Islandia Music Records Steven Schick is an extraordinary musician, best known as a percussionist but also a formidable conductor. After decades of performing all of…

Contemporary Classical Percussion

Future of New Jersey Percussion Ensemble in Jeopardy with departure of Peter Jarvis

August 5, 2021 Christian Carey

It was saddening to learn that Peter Jarvis has been dismissed from his position at William Paterson University. Jarvis has worked with the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, WPU’s elite cadre…

CD Review Contemporary Classical File Under? Percussion

Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion (CD Review)

June 29, 2021 Christian Carey

Caroline Shaw Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish The Narrow Sea Nonesuch CD/DL Caroline Shaw and So Percussion Let the Soil Play its Simple Part Nonesuch CD/DL The last…

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Album Review – Nightflower

April 3, 2019 Cortlandt Matthews

On January 25, 2019, Long Echo Records released composer Elliot Cole’s debut solo album, Nightflower. This album occupies the vague space between the generated and constructed, and lives up to…

Concert review Contemporary Classical Los Angeles Percussion

WasteLAnd Concert at Art Share in Los Angeles

December 26, 2018 Paul Muller

The latest wasteLAnd concert at Art Share in downtown Los Angeles was Friday, December 14, 2018 and drew a good sized crowd for five works featuring percussion and voice. Soprano…

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Metropolis Ensemble Presents: Memory Palace (Preview)

November 13, 2017 Cortlandt Matthews

On Monday, November 20 in New York, Metropolis Ensemble percussionist Ian Rosenbaum will present an hour-long, seamless musical narrative culminating in Christopher Cerrone’s evocative work Memory Palace. Through electro-acoustic soundscapes,…

CD Review Contemporary Classical Experimental Music File Under? Percussion

LA Percussion Quartet – Beyond (CD)

June 21, 2017 Christian Carey

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet Beyond Works by Daniel Bjarnason, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Christopher Cerrone, Ellen Reid, and Andrew McIntosh Sono Luminus 2XCD Los Angeles Percussion Quartet performs on one of the…