The New York Times – Music:
In an evening built to entertain, there was also depth in Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s conducting and the cellist Edgar Moreau’s playing.
Author: Seth Colter Walls
-
MasterVoices Puts on a Starry Show With a Shoestring Budget
The New York Times – Music:
This essential organization gives fresh, entertaining life to music theater curiosities. What if it had more money?
-
Review: With Premieres, an Orchestra Keeps Facing Forward
The New York Times – Music:
The American Composers Orchestra, which occupies an essential place in the New York scene, presented an evening of several new works at Zankel Hall.
-
Courtney Bryan’s Music Brings It All Together
The New York Times – Music:
A recent recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant, this pianist and composer fuses different styles for a sound that is entirely her own.
-
Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings
The New York Times – Music:
Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and Paul Pinto.
-
Review: Laurie Anderson Gets Back to Having a Good Time
The New York Times – Music:
With the jazz combo Sexmob, this enduring avant-gardist revisited vintage and recent songs with a grooving spirit.
-
In Debut, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Gets the Philharmonic
The New York Times – Music:
The New York Philharmonic’s renovated hall is a proving ground for guests to balance the orchestra. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla did so with assurance.
-
Tzadik’s Experimental Music Is Streaming. Start Here.
The New York Times – Music:
Listen to 15 streaming highlights from the vast catalog of Tzadik, the imprint founded by John Zorn.
-
Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern
The New York Times – Music:
“The Hunt,” set to premiere this month in New York, mines ancient lore about unicorns, but asks questions of today. Who has power, and who has rights?