Score: Liszt and the fountains at the Villa d’Este.
Boston Globe, September 29, 2017.
Month: September 2017
Love Is Not Enough
Score: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s indiscriminate excellence.
Boston Globe, September 27, 2017.
Big wheel keep on turning
Reviewing Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry, premiering Philip Glass.
Boston Globe, September 25, 2017.
Color and Light
Mary Hallock Greenewalt’s Illuminated Music.
Red Bull Music Academy Daily, September 20, 2017.
The mountain in front passes by, giving way to the mountain behind
Score: On Isang Yun.
Boston Globe, September 15, 2017.
In ire and exultation
Guerrieri: O God of Earth and Altar (2017) (PDF, 46Kb)
New church season requires a new introit, so here’s a box of crunchy pentachords to get everyone’s attention.
Handful of Keys
Score: Remembering François Rilhac.
Boston Globe, September 1, 2017.
I first found out about Rilhac through YouTube; here’s a couple excerpts from a concert he gave with Louis Mazatier in June of 1987. First, Rilhac’s version of Donald Lambert’s version of Wagner’s “Pilgrim’s Chorus”:
And here he is—somehow efficient and yearning at the same time—playing Jerome Kern’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”: