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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-12 01:50:17
The Grammy-nominated JACK Quartet performed six virtuosic works―four by living composers—Sunday afternoon at a sold-out Calderwood Hall. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-01-11 02:29:00
I've published some reviews and articles without writing them up here. In reverse chronological orderSarah Cahill at Old First Church, a first-class recital of new and unfamiliar older music, including my first hearing of any of Ann Southam's gorgeous piano music.SF Symphony Cutbacks: Incidental or Significant? News article on SoundBox and SFS's finances, written with Janos Gereben.Dido's Ghost, at Philharmonia Baroque. My first exposure to the music of Errolynn Wallen; an uneasy extension of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, well performed but it didn't exactly work for me.The Emissary, Opera Parallèle. A short, sweet opera based on Yoko Tawada's short, rather less sweet, novel of a dystopian future.The JACK Quartet plays music of John Luther Adams. An extraordinary performance of amazing music.
2023-12-20 18:01:00
[…] at SFS.Gabriel Kahane's emergency shelter intake form at SFS, on a program where Conrad Tao played Gershwin, brilliantly, as well.Falstaff at Opera San José. Yes, too too many fat jokes, but oh! what a lovely performance.Michel van der Aa's Blank Out, an opera with one character on video and the other live. A beautiful and moving work. I hope to hear more of his music in the future.Adriana Mater at SF Symphony.Pan, by Marcos Balter, performed by Claire Chase.JACK Quartet playing music of John Luther Adams.Thomas Conlin and the Vallejo Festival Orchestra in Sibelius. Some beautifully-sung songs and a fine 2nd Symphony made this a highlight, and it was particularly satisfying in the same week as the Thielemann/VPO program. Remember that there are treasures everywhere among the regional orchestras and opera companies.West Edge Opera's double bill of Stravinsky's Nightingale and Schoenberg's Erwartung, the latter featuring a knockout performance by Mary Evelyn Hangley.I heartily endorse Joshua Kosman's […]
2023-12-20 10:00:00
Launched in 2019, JACK Studio provides up to 15 composers each year with the opportunity to partake in reading sessions.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.