"I was particularly delighted by a passage where Wooley took off his mouthpiece and stuck a microphone up the bell to capture a volley of gurgles and pops that evoked a robot undergoing a gastrointestinal meltdown"

Read all about #AnneaLockwood's composer portrait — the good, the bad, the gleefully disgusting — in my latest for the #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/mill-valley-chamber-music-society/composer-annea-lockwoods-vocabularies-of-sound

#NewMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MyArticles #MusicJournalism #MusicCriticism

pipe organ simulations, Wallace Steven poems, and shamisen concerti — my latest #review is live in the #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice! https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/international-contemporary-ensemble-ice/international-contemporary-ensembles-inside-voice-at

#ContemporaryClassical #ClassicalMusic #NewMusic #InternationalContemporaryEnsemble

my latest review is live in the #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice! read all about Chunky in Heat, a surreal new #opera about grief, family, and a sentient talking tree: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/none/chunky-in-heat-bristles-with-hallucinatory-energy

Florence Price's second violin concerto received its (long overdue!) NYC premiere on Wednesday, alongside a devastating work about lynching by William Grant Still, a bit of Dvořák, and a selection of spirituals. I wrote all about it for the #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice!

[NB: In discussing lynching, there's some mention of contemporary police antiblackness as well]

https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/none/marginalized-composers-take-center-stage-at-the-schomburg-center

my latest #review is live in the #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice! i talk about the #AmericanComposersOrchestra playing #MortonFeldman, #GloriaCoates, and #DuYun with some things that were successful and others that were . . . less so! click on over and give it a read: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/none/the-american-composers-orchestra-takes-a-magic-carpet-ride

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new #review! i saw Julia Bullock's extremely unorthodox cabaret tribute to Joséphine Baker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and i wrote all about it for #SanFranciscoClassicalVoice: https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/international-contemporary-ensemble-ice/a-complex-sometimes-furious-portrait-of-josephine

#MusicCriticism #NewMusic #JuliaBullock #JoséphineBaker #cabaret