الوسم: Steve Smith
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Album review: Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, ‘Never were the way she was’
Album review: Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Never were the way she wasBoston GlobeApril 28, 2015 Proclaimed "the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the avant-garde saxophone world" in a concert review by some wag who used to write for The New York Times, Colin Stetson has made a beautiful new record with his Arcade Fire colleague…
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Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block at 3S Artspace, April 18, 2015
Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block: Sonorous Vessels3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NHApril 18, 2015 Sound artists Jason Lescalleet and Olivia Block collaborated for the first time in the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a new piece inspired by and extending upon Alvin Lucier's Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels, on Saturday night at 3S Artspace in…
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Olivia Block on Jason Lescalleet, Alvin Lucier, and Sonorous Vessels
Olivia Block, by Richard Termine for The New York Times Newer Music bonus track As reported for my Newer Music column in the Boston Globe yesterday, sound artist Jason Lescalleet is launching a quarterly duo-concert residency at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, this Saturday night with the world premiere of Sonorous Vessels, a composition jointly…
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The Nile Project at Tsai Performance Center, March 27, 2015
The Nile Project, by Kayana Szymczak for the Boston Globe The Nile Project at Tsai Performance Center, March 27, 2015Boston GlobeMarch 30, 2015 I'm reasonably sure that I didn't use the word fad when I filed this review, since that term doesn't accurately portray my feelings about artistic and cultural fusion, which can be a…
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New Music Boston: April 2015
Tania León, by Niels Leiser NEW MUSIC BOSTONApril 2015 (Updated March 22) 1 Pierluigi Billone residencyVerticale Muto; Mani. MattaMike Williams, percussion; [sound icon]College of Fine Arts Concert Hall, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston8 p.m.Free admissionMore information Philip GlassWords Without Music: A Conversation with Philip GlassBerklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston7 p.m.$30, includes signed…
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Newer Music 05: A Winged Victory for the Sullen
"A Winged Victory for the Sullen celebrates serendipity"Boston GlobeMarch 21, 2015 The fifth installment of my monthly Newer Music column is out today, and covers the ambient cum post-classical chamber music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, from Stars of the Lid, and Dustin O'Halloran, of Devics. The duo and their…
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Unconscious-Lee.
The author, daughter, and Lee Konitz, by Limor Tomer Annina didn't make it quite to the end of the lovely set that Lee Konitz, a saxophonist who actually warrants the tag "legendary," played with pianist Dan Tepfer at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday afternoon. Much as I would have liked to hear it, I…