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Concert Review: Modus Operandi Orchestra Performs Brahms and Burckardt (March 3, 2026)
The finale of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 teemed with extravagant passion and boasted a remarkably beautiful flute solo.
Read More »Music Review: Ensemble Dal Niente Performs Music by George Lewis, Carola Bauckholt, Igor Santos on ‘portrait RE/Flux/Pacific Time’
This bold new collection showcases music from a relative newcomer side-by-side with recent compositions by long-established contemporary composers.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Composer Elliot Goldenthal on American Ballet Theatre’s Revival of Lar Lubovitch’s ‘Othello’
Once Goldenthal had completed the music for a scene, he and Lubavitch continued their dialogue as the choreographer worked with the dancers, refining the dance in the studio...
Read More »Music Reviews: Nektar’s ‘Down to Earth’ Box Set, plus Duke Robillard and Paul McCandless
This follow-up to the "Remember the Future" album reached No. 32 on U.S. charts and produced the group’s only U.S. chart single, “Astral Man.”
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Silver Manhattan’ – Jesse Malin Rocks in His Off-Broadway Debut
Rocker Jesse Malin's touching and joyful autobiographical musical brings to life the legendary NYC music scene of the '70s and '80s even as it revolves around the spinal stroke that rendered him paraplegic in 2023.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Healing Bach’
The vast and beautiful Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Manhattan's East Side was an apt setting for Bach's cantatas.
Read More »Music Review: Grievous Angels – ‘Revolution’
'Revolution' from the Grievous Angels is an uplifting and wonderful album for our times which will have you dancing on the picket lines.
Read More »Music Review: Michael Hersch – ‘Medea,’ a One-Act Opera, Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann
Even for an experimental-music aficionado, these works can be challenging to absorb. But it's worth exposing oneself to art that tears away boundaries and expectations
Read More »Music Review: Sarah Kirkland Snider – ‘Forward into Light’
The new album featuring the Metropolis Ensemble led by Andrew Cyr reveals Snider as, among other things, a master orchestral colorist.
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