Traditional ballads, Scottish writer Willa Muir once suggested, arise from deep strata of shared human experience. They open onto landscapes of feeling and imagination that have their own unhurried rhythms, quite distinct from the regulatory measures of clock time. This performance by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze and pianist Kerry Young of Linda Catlin Smith’s Ballad (2004)Continue reading “Linda Catlin Smith. Ballad.”
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Barbara Monk Feldman. Verses.
The Northern Shore alludes in its title to Gaspé Peninsula, eastern Quebec, where the St. Lawrence flows into the Atlantic. The four other titles on this disc lack such site specificity, yet all five compositions may be heard as meditations on diffusion. The presence of each note as it appears in Barbara Monk Feldman’s musicContinue reading “Barbara Monk Feldman. Verses.”
Anoush Moazzeni Weaves a New Narrative
In Anoush Moazzeni’s The drops of the rain become one with me, small mechanisms move inside and above an open grand piano. Wooden structures glide across the piano strings of their own accord, hammering and pressing the instrument with mallets, while microphones pick up sounds that are then processed digitally on a computer. Moazzeni, seatedContinue reading “Anoush Moazzeni Weaves a New Narrative”
Trase Pa: Choreographing the Soundworld of David Bontemps’s Traces
In most cultures there has always been a synergetic interplay between music and dance—one informing and amplifying the other. Music exemplifies the physicality and rhythmicity that exists in a dancing body. The synergy of dance and music is a repertoire of invitations to the spaces in between—where syncopation meets breath and elicits feeling, and whereContinue reading “Trase Pa: Choreographing the Soundworld of David Bontemps’s Traces”
JunctQín Keyboard Collective. reTHiNK.
On reTHiNK, JunctQín Keyboard Collective presents an eclectic collection of piano compositions new and old that vibrantly showcases their broad range. While this trio, comprising Elaine Lau, Joseph Ferretti, and Stephanie Chua, has been performing together for more than a decade, reTHiNK is their debut album; their unfaltering, polished performance is a testament to yearsContinue reading “JunctQín Keyboard Collective. reTHiNK.”