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Music Review: The Crossing – ‘At Which Point’ - Blogcritics

5 days ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

TheCrossing, the elite new-music chamber choir led by Donald Nally, routinely pushes the boundaries of what kinds of music a group of human voices can create. Its recent releases have included David Shapiro’s atheistic mass Sumptuous Planet and a pandemic-themed Christmas album. For At Which Point, their latest release, the choir worked with three composers who take excellent advantage of the ensemble’s strengths and predilections.
Music Review: Susan Botti – ‘River Spirits’ - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The website of composer Susan Botti describes her River Spirits as a “theatrical motet” and a “futuristic abstract fable.” Those two phrases nicely encapsulate the fusion of past and future one can discern in both the instrumental parts and the vocals in this four-movement work. It calls for three voices plus an ensemble of contemporary and early music instruments, including one I’d never encountered before: an electric viola da gamba.
Book & Music Reviews: ‘Decade of Dissent: How 1960s Bob Dylan Changed the World,’ plus the Bongos & Robert Forster - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

If you lined up every copy of every book by and about Bob Dylan, they’d stretch all the way from Highway 61 to Desolation Row. They include volumes that discuss his songs or contain lyrics or sheet music, a memoir, an abstruse novel, umpteen biographies, and assorted scholarly tomes.
Book Review: ‘Written on the Dark’ by Guy Gavriel Kay - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Richard Marcus

Written on the Dark is the latest book from the pen and mind of historical/fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay. Unfortunately historical/fantasy is a disservice for describing what Kay creates as it doesn’t nearly encompass the scope and depth of his stories or his characters. As with his most recent books, Written on the Dark is set in Kay’s version of medieval Europe. For while place and people’s names are changed, the countries, and some historical figures, are recognizable.
Music Review: ‘Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger’ - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Then and Now collects five chamber works by Richard Festinger dating from the past two decades. Amid the shatterings of classical convention that have characterized the 20th and 21st centuries, Festinger’s work has remained stubbornly tonal and chromatic. He composes melodies, builds harmonies, and writes in phrases – all in a distinctive and, based on these selections, a very likable voice.
Concert Review: Boulder Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Pianist Adam Żukiewicz - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Music, we say, is the universal language. Still, it’s often a particular place that inspires a composer. Felix Mendelssohn and the Hebrides. Jordan Nobles and his homeland of Canada. Lou Reed and New York City. Composer-conductor Bahman Saless of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra took the Rocky Mountains for his muse for “Ode to the Rockies,” his craggy mini-suite that kicked off the orchestra’s 20th-anniversary celebration concert at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on May 18.
Music & Video Reviews: Badfinger’s Lost LP, plus Live Albums from Al Stewart, Translator, and Oregon - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

Badfinger is best known for its first three albums, all from 1970 and 1971, and the Top 10 singles they spawned: “Come and Get It,” which Paul McCartney wrote and produced, “Day after Day,” which George Harrison produced, and “No Matter What.” One thing this Beatles-influenced Welsh rock outfit is not known for is an LP called Head First, which it recorded at Apple Studios in 1974. At the time, its members were dealing with assorted music-business disputes and personal problems.
Concert Review: ‘Taking Flight’ with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Anne Akiko Meyers - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Debates about the appropriateness of artistic responses to tragedy and destruction won’t be settled in one night at Carnegie Hall. But “The Pacific Has No Memory,” which bloomed from the musical pen of Eric Whitacre after he witnessed the Los Angeles-area wildfires of January 2025, showed one thing without a doubt at its May 17 New York premiere with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: that such responses can carry notes of both melancholy and hope.
Opera Review (NYC): Heartbeat Opera Reimagines Gounod’s ‘Faust’ - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

With musical wizard Dan Schlosberg on a break, would Heartbeat Opera’s latest production, a reimagined Faust, offer the musical magic that has made its predecessors so deliriously impactful and fun? Happily the answer is yes, thanks to skillful and imaginative arranger Francisco Ladrón De Guevera, the rest of the Heartbeat Opera team, and a terrific cast with thespian skills to match their singing voices. Shadow screens. Puppetry. A silent-movie sequence.
Music Review: Adam Mirza – ‘Partial Knowledge’ - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

4 Views Between 2002 and 2017 composer Adam Mirza encountered many musicians and ensembles based in New York City, where he lived. The music on his first solo album, Partial Knowledge, composed between 2006 and 2022, evokes to my NYC ears some of the urban chaos we city-dwellers face.