Cellist-composer Mike Block explains an interesting concept to me: “There’s a strong improvisational tradition in Baroque music,” he says. “The notation was essentially a chord chart back then—we’re ...
Three stellar chamber ensembles -- Junction Trio (July 3), Black Oak Ensemble (July 6), and Spektral Quartet (July 10) -- are coming to Newport next month to perform at The Breakers (44 Ochre Point ...
MUSKEGON — They play traditional instruments, but an Intersection trio concert is anything but traditional. The violin, cello and piano trio known as Intersection has forged a following of fans ...
PORT ANGELES — A cellist born in Bulgaria, a steel-pan player from Portland, Ore., and a clawhammer banjo man from Philadelphia: The three, each contributing his own style, set out to tell stories in ...
On the new album the Claremont presents music written especially for the group over the last fourteen years by six of today's leading composers - Gabriela Lena Frank, Sean Shepherd, Judd Greenstein, ...
The CDs likely to be released in this, Chopin’s bicentenary year can hardly fail to be weighted in favour of his solo piano music, since that is the area to which he devoted the bulk of his creative ...
The Furuya sisters of Dobbs Ferry all play classic instruments; all went to Julliard; all have composed music. And they have played with some of the major orchestras of the world as soloists. Together ...
The middle child of the string family, the cello isn't heard from often enough in the improv world. Those who do pick up the instrument in jazz and experimental musics—Ron Carter, Tom Cora, Tristan ...
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