A selection from the 76 pieces of Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project showed the composers' vast range of styles and approaches.
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Music Review: ‘A Forest Unfolding’ – a Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."
Read More »Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Live from Asbury Park,’ plus the Knack, Iris DeMent, Rachelle Garniez, and R.W. Hampton
Springsteen’s return to his home turf lends a special flavor to this performance.
Read More »Concert Review: Simone Dinnerstein, Baroklyn, Concora Play Bach and Philip Glass at the Naumburg Bandshell
One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
Read More »Music Review: Noah Meites – ‘COUNTING’
Let your mind create its own pictures...
Read More »Music Review: Ana-Marija Markovina – Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Complete Solo Piano Works Vol. 1
Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, composed some 450 works. And it isn't enough to say that her music is as skillfully composed as that of her male peers. Like theirs, it has a distinctive voice (or voices).
Read More »Music Reviews: Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser,’ Gene Parsons’s ‘Kindling and Beyond,’ and More
“Today, I looked in the mirror, and I caught me by surprise. The man I saw lookin’ back at me, I almost didn’t recognize."
Read More »I Shall Be Released: Chuck Berry, Jo Dee Messina, Pussy Riot, Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck, and Dinnerstein Plays Glass
"While the world is waiting for the UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, I challenge President Putin to a cage match," says Pussy Riot.
Read More »Music Review: a·pe·ri·od·ic – ‘Aus der Nacht’ by Magnus Granberg
A work like this asks us to exercise our patience, something in short supply these days – to listen closely to a spread of sound over time without imposing expectations on it.
Read More »Music Reviews: Lovin’ Spoonful’s Complete Recordings, plus Joey Quinones and JP Soars with Anne Harris
The band continually reinvented itself, serving up hits that each seemed quite unlike the one that came before.
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