A Masterclass in Performance Practice for "Quartet for the End of Time’s" 80th Anniversary
When The Anzû Quartet meets Messiaen’s monumental quartet, the result is as educational as it is moving.
ReviewBirds, Typewriters, and Tone Rows (I Think)
The experimentalism of TIME:SPANS 2021 feels even fresher after 18 months away.
ReviewOverdone and Done Over
I used to think that early music was stodgy and stuck in the past. Here are a few of the recordings that convinced me otherwise.
Early MusicOpera and TV had a Baby, and There's A Lot to Love
It's a little weird seeing Hollywood actors pantomime opera, but this is a genre to watch.
ReviewYour Next Binge-Watch Includes Sopranos (But No Mobsters)
A collaboration between Boston Lyric Opera and Long Beach Opera creates a new genre: the opera miniseries.
Vocal MusicThird Coast Percussion and Two Assads Explore “The Stories That Connect Us All”
With a universal sentiment in mind — archetypes, after all, define human experience the world over — father and daughter began work on a monumental 12-movement cycle, each movement modeled after one of the archetypes proposed by Freudian psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
ReviewTAK Ensemble Reaches for the Cosmos
Taylor Brook’s "Star Maker Fragments" evoke the extraterrestrial.
ReviewHolland Andrews Phones It In
On the cusp of their EP release, the performance artist devises new ways of listening closely.
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