Even the most familiar of instruments harbors endless possibilities. Mining them is a task that never ends, and never should.
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Concert Review: Mannes Orchestra with Sandbox Percussion, Stefan Jackiw
Throughout the concert the young musicians showed a high level of collective polish and individual skill to go with their infectious enthusiasm.
Read More »Music Review: Haochen Zhang – ‘Beethoven and Liszt’
Liszt's B minor sonata gives a pianist opportunities to show off blazing technique. But interestingly, Zhang's particular skills allow him to find greater depths of feeling in the piece than I'm used to hearing.
Read More »Music Review: loadbang – ‘A Garden Adorned’
The quartet's new album harvests the creativity of five composers, each marshaling in their own style loadbang's unique sound world.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist Haochen Zhang on His New Album of Beethoven and Liszt
Zhang plays Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' and Liszt's B minor Sonata on his latest recording.
Read More »Music Review: ‘Northern Light: Echoes from 17th-Century Scandinavia’ from Ensemble Correspondances and Lucile Richardot
Music from the court of Charles XI of Sweden, "a deliberate crossroads of European music and musicians."
Read More »Concert Review: Leonard Slatkin Conducts the New York Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, NY Premiere of Corigliano’s Saxophone Concerto ‘Triathlon’
Having recently marked his 80th birthday, Maestro Slatkin looked as fit and energized as ever conducting Corigliano, Shostakovich and McTee.
Read More »Music Review: Jeremias Schwarzer – ‘New Recorder Concertos’
These four works, each remarkable in its own way, spotlight the wide-ranging skills and creativity of recorder virtuoso Jeremias Schwarzer himself as well as the composers' challenging and distinctive visions.
Read More »Concert Review: Curtis on Tour with Jason Vieaux – Music for Guitar and Strings
Two stellar Curtis students joined Vieaux and violist Roberto Díaz in music by de Falla, Piazzolla, Paganini and Zhou Tian.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Trojans,’ a New SynthWave Musical by Leegrid Stevens
This high-school-football retelling of 'The Iliad' is a voluminous, rainbow-hued spectacle of glory days and myth, staged and played with pomp and passion.
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