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Circus Tango / Mark Alburger

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2008-11-04 00:22:11 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...musical violences (OK, I skipped some of the details when my daughter was listening to it in the days of yore); to moments of beauty and high camp. The singers sing from the pit (or, in this case, the raised platform in back) and have no one-to-one correspondence with the acrobat/actor/dancers/mimes on stage. Not only did this assist in...
 
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Publication

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2008-11-01 08:19:53 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...music to connect with its listeners viscerally, as well as intellectually. That flash of obviousness constituted apostasy in the insular, parochial society of the musical vanguard. 'What was creating such a deep impression upon me in the music of these German composers was the pure expressivity of their art,' Adams explains in Hallelujah...
 
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Calendar for December 2008

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2008-11-01 08:19:41 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
December 5 Kronos Quartet performs George Crumbs Black Angels . Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
 
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Recording

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2008-11-01 08:19:41 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...Music Orchestra turns up memorably, and so do several rough-and-tumble quartets featuring the bassist Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler on trumpet or George Lewis on trombone. Taken as a whole the collection enables a new understanding of Mr. Braxtons complicated mind-set as he works through a host of ideas about disjuncture and continuity, form...
 
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Lively Dead State / Mark Alburger

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2008-10-06 19:25:30 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...music is wonderful: a colorful post-Puccinian, Straussian score tinged with New Viennese danger (though the composer and his co-librettist, music-critic father were clearly not of the Arnold Schoenberg / Alban Berg camp). Not that the initial story or stage action seem promissing A man ("Paul" -- changed from "Hugues" in the Rodenbach -- is...
 
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21ST-CENTURY MUSIC - December 2008

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2008-10-04 02:43:03 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...MUSIC December 2008 Volume 15, Number 12 Work-in-Progress, October 3, 2008 Chronicle of October 2008 Illustration / Bernard Rands - As All Get Out Editorial Staff Mark Alburger EDITOR-PUBLISHER Harriet March Page ASSOCIATE EDITOR Patti Noel Deuter ASSISTANT EDITOR Erling Wold WEBMASTER Alexis Alrich Katherine Buono Ken Bullock...
 
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Chronicle of October 2008

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2008-10-04 02:42:56 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
October 1 Lorin Maazel conducts the New York Philharmonic in Bernard Rands's Chains Like the Sea . Avery Fisher Hall, New York, NY. "This orchestra has regularly favored new pieces from composers who combine rigorous methods with more lyrical inclinations. Mr. Rands, English-born but based in the United States since 1975, creates pieces filled...
 
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Music of Emily Dickinson / Phillip George

2008-10-01 22:00:00 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
 
...music, and musicology at the University of Vienna and studied theory and composition with her future husband Karl Weigl (1881-1949), whose associates included Pablo Casals, Wilheim Furtwangler, Heinrich Schenker, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, and Bruno Walter. In 1938 the Weigls were rescued from the oncoming war in Europe by the Quaker...
 
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Roll Dem Bones / Mark Alburger

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2008-09-30 06:23:52 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...musical-theatrical fireworks and less-than-engaging table time Certainly it is a committed production. From the opening cavalcade of orchestral effects, graced by sona oboes (not trumpets, as erroneously designated in the program), everything is in place to astound. Wallace's score is appealing throughout, showing plenty of Western chutzpah...
 
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21ST-CENTURY MUSIC / November 2008

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2008-09-20 01:24:03 by Mark Alburger in 21ST-CENTURY MUSIC
...MUSIC November 2008 Volume 15, Number 11 Work-in-Progress, September 19, 2008 MAURICIO KAGEL (1931-2008) / Mark Alburger RICK WRIGHT (1943-2008) / Phillip George BERNSTEIN BOUNCE / Mark Alburger CALENDAR for November 2008 CHRONICLE of September 2008 ILLUSTRATION / Pink Floyd Editorial Staff Mark Alburger EDITOR-PUBLISHER ...
 
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