The Prologue for string orchestra is clearly the most serious piece on the orchestra, and it makes a nice finale. This performance of the Peanuts Gallery is a good one,…
By binding the chords and phrases of Schoenberg’s music, Iman almost makes it sound more pentatonic than atonal—one might say, a cousin to Scriabin. Nonetheless, Witzel does what he can…
He began his solo career as a member of the Opera Studio and, later, in the Soloist Ensemble of the Opernhaus Zürich. The lyrical-coloratura tenor has played a great diversity…
Like Kant, Hegel preferred vocal music to instrumental, deprecating wordless music as subjective and indefinite. The essence of music he held to be rhythm, which finds its counterpart in the…
Les Deux Amis, Flute and Guitar Duo Emerging young artists and currently graduate students at The Hartt School, Garcia and Hershey will present a delightful evening of chamber music. Each…
Hammond organist Brian Ho, on the other hand, is just a rhythmic player who swings. He’s not as inventive as Jimmy Smith or Barbara Dennerlein , who are the two…
YAM was opened by lake highlands residents, Jen & Trey Johnson, with the goal to create a community-based space to help highlight amazing local yoga teachers, artists and musicians. The…
The album closes with The Old Country, a song that Cannonball Adderly wrote for vocalist Nancy Wilson back in 1961. This is a nice, upbeat performance, and although the original…
Through its wind instruments, it invites one to visit other cultures and heritages. 'Play a Part' from Armenian producer Teom drags us quickly until we find ourselves contemplating a surreal…
After the first exhibition of her pictures in Berlin, her "God-given talent" was several times mentioned by the art critics. In Manila particularly, amidst the pealing of bells and strains…