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Tue. Apr 1st, 2025

(This is an expansion of an earlier post for a concert ultimately postponed due to snowstorm Jonas in January) Augustus Arnone performs a double bill of Milton Babbitt’s solo piano…

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Duo Gazzana: Looking Back to Move Forward

September 18, 2014 Tyran Grillo

In 2011, pianist Raffaella Gazzana and violinist Natascia Gazzana, better known as Duo Gazzana, made a quiet, if colorful, splash with Five Pieces, their first record for ECM’s New Series…

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Gloria Cheng Performs Harpsichord Music in Pasadena

February 9, 2014 Paul Muller

Friday, February 7, 2014 Piano Spheres presented The Intrepid Harpsichord, Part II, performed by Gloria Cheng at Boston Court in Pasadena. The concert included an intriguing mixture of early French…

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Cage and Beyond

October 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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Kaminsky Comments

August 31, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Updated : 9/6/12 with added thoughts from Laura Kaminsky. Every so often we have a conversation that changes us for the better. Sometimes, we have this type of conversation with…

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Gloria Cheng Plays John Cage in Pasadena

August 25, 2012 Paul Muller

The 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage was celebrated in Pasadena, California at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center with a concert by Gloria Cheng titled Two Sides…

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The Unanswered Petition (Save Ives’s House!)

August 7, 2012 Christian Carey

Way back in September, Charles Ives scholar Jan Swafford reported in Slate that the Ives home in Redding, Connecticut, built by the composer and for many years maintained by his…

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A Cowboy Hangs Up His Spurs

July 24, 2012 Christian Carey

On July 22nd via his PostClassic blog, Kyle Gann published a post titled “One Less Critic,” more or less announcing his retirement from music criticism after was able to successfully…

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Lend Your Voice to Q2 Music

July 18, 2012 Jonathan Lakeland

Sometimes, classical music gets a bad rap. To be perfectly honest, there is a chunk of the population that finds it to be synonymous with any number of derogatory terms:…

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Sixty Postwar Pieces to Study

March 20, 2012 Christian Carey

Sixty Postwar Pieces to Study Recently, a couple of the undergraduate composers in the program at Westminster Choir College asked me for lists of postwar pieces to study. Given the…