The first freestanding work for orchestra by film composer Danny Elfman has been recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Sandy Cameron.
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Concert Review: Violist Samuel Rhodes at Juilliard (NYC, 19 March 2019)
Whoops and hollers from a student-heavy audience at Juilliard greeted the head of the school's viola department at his concert featuring music by Mozart, Hummel, and John Harbison.
Read More »Music Reviews: Beat Circus – ‘These Wicked Things’ and Michael McDermott – ‘Orphans’
Brightly inventive in the service of a dim mood, the songs on Beat Circus' 'These Wicked Things' smell of existential desperation. It's one of the cooler albums to cross my transom this year.
Read More »Music Review: The Suitcase Junket – ‘Mean Dog, Trampoline’
The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019: Preview (March 11–17, Austin, Texas)
Broken Social Scene and Japanese Breakfast are among the thousands of performers scheduled for South by Southwest Music Festival 2019 in Austin, Texas on March 11-17.
Read More »Music Review: Our Native Daughters – ‘Songs of Our Native Daughters’
'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard String Quartet with Pianist Marc-André Hamelin (NYC, 8 Feb 2019)
After the quartet performed Haydn and Kurtag, Hamelin joined them in a breathtaking performance of Dvorak's monumental second piano quintet.
Read More »Concert Review: Marty Haggard – A Tribute to My Dad
Marty Haggard brings us joy and memories with his concert, “A Tribute to My Dad, Merle Haggard.”
Read More »Charlie Doherty’s Top Tunes of 2018 (Camila Cabello, Post Malone, The 1975, Chris Cornell, and More)
Rock music will always come first in my world, but you'll see an eclectic list of everything from jazz-hop (Anderson .Paak) to metal, country, electronica, R&B, and folk rock.
Read More »Interview with Pianist Jason Solounias
Accomplished classical pianist Jason Solounias on his early interest in music, teaching music, performing, and why he's releasing his first commercial recordings on the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos.
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