a youth choir, a post-minimalist composer, the US Poet Laureate, two soloists, and a trove of letters from African American soldiers in the US Civil War — my latest #review is live in the #LogJournal: https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2019/05/02/in-review-a-premiere-by-songs-of-solomon/
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i'm not saying i *never* #review music by people who are no longer alive, i'm just saying i don't *often* review music by people who are no longer alive, so don't miss this rare foray of mine into the misty depths of the early twentieth century and the emergence of concert #spirituals:
https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2019/03/05/in-review-fisk-jubilee-singers/
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i saw a piece that was accompanied by projections of dinosaurs, and then i heard a piece that *reminded* me of dinosaurs — guess which one i thought was more successful! find out the answer in my latest #review for the #LogJournal, covering a Composer Portrait of #WangLu:
https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2019/02/26/in-review-wang-lu-composer-portrait/
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new #review alert! i'm in the #LogJournal with a new piece about the 2019 #PrototypeOpera festival! i saw everything except Caroline Shaw's Partita (T.T about missing it, tbh), and wrote about each individual show with some bonus thoughts about the lineup as a whole. click on over and give it a read!
[NB: some of the pieces in this article deal with issues of sexual assault, racism, depression, and suicidal ideation]
https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2019/01/15/in-review-prototype-festival-2019/
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