Clavvs and HÆLOS helped bookend a tiring Thursday lineup at South by Southwest 2019 in Austin Texas.
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Music Review: Danny Elfman – “Violin Concerto ‘Eleven Eleven,’ Piano Quartet”
The first freestanding work for orchestra by film composer Danny Elfman has been recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Sandy Cameron.
Read More »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 »SXSW Music Festival 2019: March 13 (Austin, Texas)
Das Body and Sweet Crude performed some addicting uptempo dance songs to Wednesday's SXSW schedule in Austin, Texas.
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: March 12 (Austin, Texas)
Gurr and Priests were among the bands performing on Tuesday, March 12 during South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2019 Begins
Moving Panoramas and SOAK were among the first performers at SXSW 2019 in Austin, Texas on March 10-11.
Read More »Concert Review: Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian – ‘When Tchaikovsky Met Brahms’ (NYC, 6 March 2019)
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave sumptuous performances of music by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Grieg at Columbia University's Italian Academy.
Read More »Concert Review: Cellist Inbal Segev – ’21st Century Women’
New York-based cellist Inbal Segev continues to expand her range. The quality of the music in her latest program ranged from exhilarating to predictable. But her technique and sensitivity revealed all the works in advantageous light.
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