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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MATA Festival: Composer/Performers Today at Roulette
The second night of this year's MATA Festival – devoted, as in past years, to composers under the age of 40 – focused on the music of young composer/performers, with
Pianist Jenny Q Chai at Zankel
by Angela Sutton Few composers after World War I have shown much interest in the singing piano lines or melodic hooks favored in the nineteenth century. Consequently, their works are
Brooklyn Philharmonic’s “Brooklyn Village” at Roulette
(photo: Joshua Simpson) "Where was I the day/ I finally found my place? When was it that place/ Became home? What hand, what open arms/ Welcomed who I was What
4 Walls / Doubletoss Interludes – Cage and Cunningham at BAC
by Angela Sutton Photo: J. Cervantes The Baryshnikov Arts Center presented a stunning remapping of modernist dance and music on Thursday night at the Jerome Robbins Theater in Manhattan. Pianist
Laurie Anderson’s ‘Delusion’
Last weekend Laurie Anderson performed “Delusion” at Pace University in lower Manhattan for the final time. The piece is an audio-visual tapestry, weaving together 20 short stories and vignettes ranging from her mother’s death to Russia’s 150-year old space program.
Fast Forward Austin’s Showcase on Vicky Chow’s Contagious Sounds series
by Gabriel Furtado Robert Honstein, Ian Dickie and Steve Snowden with Vicky Chow Last Thursday (Feb 23rd) at pianist Vicky Chow's Contagious Sounds concert series at the Gershwin Hotel, listeners got a little taste
Tune-In Music Festival: Phil and Patti Blow Up the Armory
by Angela Sutton Photos: Philip Glass by James Ewing / Patti Smith by Jean Baptiste Mondino If I told you that a poet, for her composer friend's birthday, offered
Piano Squared: KeyedUp at Tenri Institute
by Angela Sutton Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo, performing as the piano duo Split Second, gave a concert almost entirely of works from our young twenty-first century Saturday night