Kurt Gottschalk

1 month ago | bachtrack.com | Kurt Gottschalk

The stage at 92NY was set with four violins, two violas da gamba, two cellos, harp, harpsichord and chamber organ, nearly twice as many instruments as there were musicians for the last of a weekend run by the Los Angeles ensemble Wild Up and with, notably, violinist Andrew McIntosh performing in all of them. Biber’s virtuosic Rosary Sonatas would be his final spotlight of the trip.

1 month ago | star-revue.com | Kurt Gottschalk

Apparitions of the Eternal Earth. On their monolithic 2022 debut, Eyes Like Predatory Wealth, the Houston, TX trio Apparitions set forth a slow burn with three tracks running, in sequence, 10, 20 and 30 minutes. The fire has been spreading ever since. In 2023, they issued the digital-only Semel, with three poundingly untitled tracks, and this month comes Volcanic Reality (CD and download from Deathbomb Arc March 24).

1 month ago | bachtrack.com | Kurt Gottschalk

With the 20th century a quarter century behind us, it’s now possible to program a concert of greatest hits around the daring white men of the era who have at length settled somewhere along the edges of convention. The JACK Quartet framed its concert at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side around the Pierre Boulez centennial and around – violinist Austin Wulliman explained from the stage – posing a conversation between the composer and his contemporaries.

1 month ago | villagestar-revue.com | Kurt Gottschalk

Apparitions of the Eternal Earth. On their monolithic 2022 debut, Eyes Like Predatory Wealth, the Houston, TX trio Apparitions set forth a slow burn with three tracks running, in sequence, 10, 20 and 30 minutes. The fire has been spreading ever since. In 2023, they issued the digital-only Semel, with three poundingly untitled tracks, and this month comes Volcanic Reality (CD and download from Deathbomb Arc March 24).

2 months ago | star-revue.com | Kurt Gottschalk

David Lynch sat in a strange seat of power during the 1990s. He had put a tale of psychic terror about a victimized cheerleader addicted to cocaine on network television. He then retconned the notion of Elvis Presley movies to include shocking levels of physical and sexual violence and took it to Cannes. And he syndicated a comic strip that repeated the same three panels with each installment, only the text changing from strip to strip.