Weekend Live Music Preview: 5/27-5/30
I know, it's a holiday weekend and a lot of folks are already on their way to the beach or country. But, for those sticking around, there are some solid […]
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Strange and Beautiful: A Celebration of the Music of John Lurie at Town Hall
by Steven Pisano Photo: Steven Pisano Even back in his heyday, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was a challenge to pin down John Lurie. Was he a band leader (Lounge
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Preview: Celebration of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards at Town Hall
by Robert Leeper John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards in the early 1980s Le Poisson Rouge's festival tribute to American icon John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards, Strange & Beautiful:
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ICE Ends Their Mostly Mozart Run with Mixed Program
by Emre Tetik Armen Elliot for The New York Times For the third time this week, the International Contemporary Ensemble (a.k.a., ICE) appeared at the Park Avenue Armory's Board of Officers
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“Celebrate Ornette!” at Celebrate Brooklyn!
by Robert Leeper Photo credits: Christopher Gregory, The New York Times There was something majestic, something paternal in his sly smile. Ornette Coleman spent the better part of his time on
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John Zorn @ 60 This Week
John Zorn is pretty much everywhere you look this week in New York, where the Zorn@60 birthday festivities are ramping up to a fever pitch. Today (9/24) you can hear Zorn himself
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FONT (Festival of New Trumpet Music) Opens at Roulette
The Festival of New Trumpet Music—a.k.a. FONT—opened its 11th edition this week with an ambitious concert last Wednesday night at Roulette. According to FONT's founder Dave Douglas, the festival is intended
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Lincoln Center Festival: Zorn@60
"I've always thought of myself as a composer, but the world has had a hard time looking at me as a composer because a lot of what I compose is
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Jennifer Koh and Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge
Last night, trailblazing violinist Jennifer Koh was joined by Ensemble LPR at (le) Poisson Rouge. They came together for a night of music by John Zorn, Charles Wuorinen, and Ludwig van Beethoven as a part of the LPR X5 festival. All of the pieces, ‘Passagen’ by Zorn, ‘Spin-5 for Violin and 18 Musicians’ by Wuorinen, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony brought a sense of wild abandon that perfectly complemented the youth and excitement of both Koh and Ensemble LPR.
Koh brought a fiery passion to John Zorn’s ‘Passagen’ for solo violin, which, like Wuorinen’s, was written for Ms. Koh. The piece is rife with rapid shifts from tight, intense tremolos and harsh pizzicato to tender ghostly harmonics. Sometimes, just sometimes, Koh coaxed out a single pure clean ethereal note or phrase that would sing out from the chaos before it was swallowed up again. The uneven rhythmic chords and pizzicato playing gave a distinctly Bartokian flavor, a flavor that was enhanced by Koh’s savage bowing.
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