Composer Portrait: Caroline Shaw with Attacca Quartet and So Percussion
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) Simply put: What can't Caroline Shaw do? As a violinist, she seems just as much at home playing a Mozart quartet as […]
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Encompass New Opera Theatre Presents “Anna Christie” at Baruch Performing Arts Center
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Of all the great American playwrights of the last hundred years, Eugene O'Neill has plumbed deeper and darker into the classic American
“Elizabeth Cree” at Opera Philadelphia
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) PHILADELPHIA, PA – "Elizabeth Cree," the new chamber opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell playing through
Stone Mason Projects at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Sometimes the thrill of great music can be discovered in the most unexpected of places. On Wednesday night, I attended a concert
Julia Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer” at BAM
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Last week, BAM’s Harvey Theater presented Steel Hammer, a theatrical working of Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Wolfe’s 2009 cantata exploring the African-American folk
Julia Wolfe Wins the Pulitzer Prize for “Anthracite Fields”
Somehow, I missed last week's announcement that Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for her oratorio Anthracite Fields, inspired by the coal miners near
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Duke Ellington, who was born this day in 1899, was by any measure the greatest composer this country has ever produced. Over a career that spanned more than half of
John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean at Carnegie’s Spring for Music
Photo credit: Melanie Burford, NPR Music Being halfway around the world in New Zealand, I haven’t had much occasion to think about what’s happening in New York these days, but