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We Love Music: Musical Moments– Kurtágs Play Kurtág at the Library of Congress
‘2007.10.19-111c.am’ courtesy of ‘RShinozaki’
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium
György and Márta Kurtág & the Keller Quartet
After the Library of Congress’ recent parade of the rather bland contemporary American music, the premiere of a new work by Kurtág performed by the composer and his wife and long-time duet partner Márta was like a breath [...]
More »We Love Music: NSO Chamber Players/American Residency Commissions
Millennium Stage Detail uploaded by mjlaflaca
This past Tuesday, Sept 23rd at 6p in the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players presented the first of two concerts featuring works commissioned as part of the NSO’s ‘American Residency’ program. Works by four composers from four states gave us musical portraits of [...]
Leung and Takao vs. Millennium Stage
Millennium Stage Detail uploaded by mjlaflaca
Cellist Amy Leung and pianist Naoko Takao gave a recital this 18 August, but they also gave us an object lesson in the challenges of presenting music in the wrong setting, here a venue which robs the music of precisely the features that make it worthy of performance– once again, [...]
Great Noise Ensemble at Capital Fringe
great noise ensemble uploaded by hirshhorn
I want to like the Great Noise Ensemble. I really do. They are a plucky bunch of kids, fighting the good fight of aesthetic diversity, they play that post-minimalist, rock/chamber fusion that’s all the rage with the kids, they’ve won WAMMIES two years in a row, and [...]
