Tristan Perich at The Kitchen
by Robert Leeper and FoM Let me cut to the chase: there is no one today writing music that is more relevant, more engaging, more viscerally exciting than Tristan Perich. […]
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JACK Quartet Plays Lachenmann at Morgan Library
f you’re looking for a concept to wrap your head around, look no further than German composer Helmut Lachenmann. Last Wednesday night at the Morgan Library & Museum, the JACK Quartet guided the audience on a journey—an intense lesson in Musique concrète, a compositional style with which he is closely associated. The performance was a CD release event for JACK’s new album featuring these works, due out on MODE ON April 1st.
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White Light Festival: Week Four Recap
The final week of the 2013 White Light Festival brought three extraordinary events to Lincoln Center that served to remind concertgoers of the remarkable breadth and eye-popping wonder of this
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Dither Extravaganza at Gowanus Loft
For the fourth year in a row, the electric guitar quartet Dither held their annual Extravaganza on Saturday night, featuring an extended evening of music from their friends in new
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JACK Quartet and Joshua Roman at (le) Poisson Rouge
Ancient and innovative can easily coexist. In music especially, composers and peroformers throughout history have looked back for guidence and inspirtaion as they move forward. Steve Reich has openly written about the debt his music owes to the 13th century French composer Pérotin and one of Felix Mendelssohn’s greatest achievements was his rediscovery of J.S Bach’s music with his mounting of the St. Matthews Passion.
On Sunday night, the JACK Quartet and guest cellist Joshua Roman continued this tradition of finding inspiration in history and programmed their findings next to the rule breakers of today. They presented three madrigals by the intensely expressive renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, arranged for sting quintet by JACK violinist Ari Streisfeld, as well as works by Joshua Roman, Brian Ferneyhough and a new piece, premiered by the quintet just three weeks ago in Seattle, by Jefferson Friedman.
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MATA Festival 2012 Wrap-Up
(Photo: Alex G. Knight) Oh, MATA Festival, how you tease me. You come into my life for but a brief week, cause my heart to flutter, stomach to clench, instigate
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Ursula Oppens/JACK Quartet @ LPR
By Caleb Easterly Ursula Oppens and the JACK Quartet gave an energetic performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge Sunday night, featuring music by Charles Wuorinen and Conlon Nancarrow. Oppens, a longtime champion
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