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Molly Morkoski performs Nocturne in the Age of Covid-19 by Gary Philo

19 November 2020
Migratory V and SoundScore Present M u s i c - i n - t h e - T i m e - o f - C o v i d-19 Molly Morkoski performs Nocturne in the Age of Covid-19 by Gary Philo GARY PHILO, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, grew up in Yorktown Heights, NY, …
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Presenting Pianist Beth Levin

16 November 2020
Migratory V Presents a Virtual Recital featuring Pianist Beth Levin virtual recital A Little Late Music by Yehudi Wyner 1. Reinhold Brinkmann….Warum! 2. Christoph Wolff 3. A Little Late Music Beethoven F Major Variations, op. 34  Chopin …
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More on Robert Pollock: Flat Earth & Aggregates

12 November 2020
Flat Earth & Aggregates (wonky, for musicians, but not wonky enough for theorists) In the early 16th Century Magellan circumnavigated the globe. At around the same time, musicians navigated the circle of fifths. During the few moments when the US …
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Wuorinen's Electric Quartet

12 November 2020
November 12, 2020 Dan Lippel & New Focus Records produces a recording of Charles Wuorinen’s Electric Quartet (2013) Dan Lippel, Oren Fader, John Chang and William Anderson, guitars Ryan Streber, producer/engineer – Oktaven Studios, Mount …
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Robert Pollock/Five Decades

6 November 2020
Iao Theater, Wailuku, Mauik Maui, Hawai’i multimedia performance presented by Ebb & Flow Arts Upcoming on Furious Artisans E n t e r t w i n e d Robert Pollock Five Decades Pollock’s music is unique, and uniquely American.His sound …
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Love and Death American Style: A George Crumb Tribute

11 November 2019
RSF supported Bridge Records’ *George Crumb Vol. 16* Cygnus pianist Joan Forsyth is a regular at Sonatina Enterprises. She recently lectured on nocturnes for the pianists from far and wide, assembled in Bennington for one of the …
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The Western Uncanonical (tribute to Harold Bloom)

7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time. Links to sound or video are in the works. I consulted with Harold Bloom when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration. In the end, Bloom …
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Leo Brouwer's El Decameron Negro

13 October 2019
This was written in 2019, when I did not know that Brouwer had studied with Wolpe. Blame the late Frank Brickle for drilling it into me that Morton Feldman’s broken symmetries come from Wolpe. In the early 70s (?) Brickle was studying Feldman and …
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