Thanks to Joseph Arndt for performing my Chanson Variations at Grace Church in Newark. At the same venue on November 16th at 4 PM, Arndt leads St. Dunstan’s Choir in the premiere of my Mass for Men’s Voices.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Vashti Bunyan: “Across the Water” (Soundcloud)
What we’ve been listening to since the weekend … Vashti Bunyan’s Heartleap is out now via DiCristina.
Out This Week: “Ambit” by The Cellar and Point
A recommended release out this week on Cuneiform Records: Ambit by “garage chamber” band The Cellar and Point.
Recommended Release: Fiore on Vinyl
Giacomo Fiore presents four works for electric guitar by living American composers – Eve Beglarian, Larry Polansky. Christian Wolff, and Anthony Porter – on his latest release IV (available here). Fiore is an ardent proponent of the electric guitar’s potential as a concert instrument. Indeed, there’s not a whiff of rock to be found on IV, but here and there jazz voicings make welcome appearances.Continue reading “Recommended Release: Fiore on Vinyl”
Matthew Shipp: I’ve Been to Many Places (CD Review)
I’ve Been to Many Places Matthew Shipp, piano Thirsty Ear Blue Series CD Pianist Matthew Shipp has recorded voluminously. Even with such a substantial discography, on his latest recording for Thirsty Ear, I’ve Been to Many Places, he shows himself still capable of sharing surprises. It isn’t in terms of wholesale changes of style or new technical innovations,Continue reading “Matthew Shipp: I’ve Been to Many Places (CD Review)”
10/3: Lechner and Couturier at the Rubin Museum
Post on Musical America (The New Classical) 10/3: Lechner and Couturier at the Rubin Museum.
