الوسم: Robert Ashley
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Passing notes: 50 Years of S.E.M. Ensemble, online April 1.
As has been the case with basically every upcoming concert scheduled to occur during the next six weeks or more, New York new-music institution the S.E.M. Ensemble has announced that its planned concert for April 1 at the Bohemian National Hall has been canceled. In this instance, presenting the concert online for an empty house…
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Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades
"Tomorrow's Valhalla: Critics Weigh in on Standout Operas of Recent Decades"The New York Times, January 5, 2014 As longtime perusers of this blog already know, I always enjoy features in which all the classical-music reviewers for The New York Times are asked to mix it up on a single topic. I missed posting the recent…
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The outer limits.
Robert Ashley's That Morning Thing at the KitchenThe New York Times, November 24, 2011 Immersed as I've been in Robert Ashley's music just lately, coming to That Morning Thing was still a matter of some considerable mystery; there's not a lot of historical detail out there about the piece, arguably Ashley's first opera and certainly…
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Legacy tour.
Varispeed performing in the Essex Street Market. Photograph: Michael Nagle/The New York Times "A Fresh Stamp on a Veteran Composer's Work"The New York Times, November 9, 2011 Originally this was going to be two separate, straightforward reviews of concerts in which new performers, mostly young, took up works by the veteran composer Robert Ashley. Instead,…