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Archive for April 17th, 2008

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Posted in Seattle, WA on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Stephen Drury performs Fredric Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated as part of the Washington Composer Forum’s Transport Series.  Rzewski himself was here a few months ago to perform the same work.  The People United is some of the most accessible and frankly enjoyable piano music of the 20th Century.  It is a [...]

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Wordless Music connects it all together

Posted in Portland, OR on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

By Lorin Wilkerson
Wordless Music Series is a project based in NYC that is “devoted to the idea that the sound worlds of classical and contemporary instrumental music—in genres such as indie rock, free jazz, and electronic music—share more in common than conventional thinking might suggest.” The most logical way to illustrate this is to take [...]

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Le Six(th)

Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Not one, but two live accounts of Mahler’s Rubik’s Cube of a symphony was released this week, one on the LSO Live label featuring Valery Gergiev making his Mahler recording debut, the other was released on the LSO Live copycat label CSO Resound under the baton of the seasoned Mahler veteran Bernard Haitink. At a [...]

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