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Tampa Bay chamber music

Chamber music by Kalevi Aho for clarinet (and some unexpected instruments)

Living in San Francisco, I have had the good fortune to experience two of Kalevi Aho’s orchestral compositions through guest appearances by...
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Modern music from seventeenth-century Venice

The title of violinist John Holloway’s latest release for ECM New Series is Sonate concertate in stil moderno, taken from the title of two...
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Midori given honorary Doctor of Music by Yale

This past Monday Yale University awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree to the violinist Midori. Yale confers these degrees in order to...
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A new approach to supporting emerging composers

This morning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) announced a new creative partnership that will bring together music publisher Boosey &...
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Geoffrey Burleson’s Saint-Saëns project

Pianist Geoffrey Burleson is undertaking a major recording project. Working with Grand Piano, the new “specialty” label of Naxos, he is...
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Luigi Russolo: noise in theory and practice

Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1883–February 4, 1947) was a major figure in the Italian Futurist movement of the early twentieth century. He first...
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Jeremy Denk’s juxtaposition of Ligeti and Beethoven

Rather late in his life, the Hungarian composer György Ligeti began working on a series of études for solo piano. He eventually composed eighteen,...
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Jorge Luis Prats in Zaragoza

Last month Decca released a recording of a recital given by the Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats on March 2, 2011 in the Sala Mozart of the new...
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Eclectic Garth Knox

Garth Knox is a violist with a broad sense of music history. Born in Ireland and raised in Scotland, he received his education at the Royal College...
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Vadim Gluzman’s departures from ‘the beaten path’

After writing the final paragraphs of yesterday’s essay about Ernest Bloch, I found myself thinking about the extent to which Vadim Gluzman...
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