Alex Ross's Blog, page 51

A Sebastian Hilli moment

Un moment Mouton

On Mank and Orson Welles

A Cultural Comment on the New Yorker website.

Das Lied in Cincinnati

Worth watching especially for Sean Panikkar's contribution.

Andrew McIntosh recital

Featuring music of Leslie Lang, Nicki Chen, Brandon Becker, Tim Feeney, Jacob Grabbe, Eric Lennartson, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Adam Zuckerman, Sara Brown, Nicholas Deyoe, Takemitsu, Bartók, and McIntosh himself.

Proustian CDs

Music Regained. The New Yorker, March 22, 2021.

Miscellany

Two video streams from the Bavarian Radio Symphony give a foretaste of the incipient Simon Rattle era in Munich. The first pairs Messiaen's Et Exspecto with a premiere by Ondřej Adámek; the second makes an unexpected but very Rattlean link between Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary to Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain.... I hugely enjoyed a recent concert by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, not only on account of a Thomas Adès premiere (Shanty — Over the Sea) and an intense performance of Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa, but also because of the happy explosions of bravos and applause, signs of musical life resuming Down Under.... Also worth exploring: the 2021 edition of the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival.... A few months back I heard from Scott Spillman, an editor at the Colorado Encyclopedia, asking if I knew anything more about Jack Bradley and Charles Burrell, two Black musicians who joined the Colorado Symphony in 1946 and 1949 — among the first to be hired by a major American orchestra. I'd mentioned Bradley in an article last fall. I had no new leads, but Scott found much more: follow the links in this entry for the Colorado Symphony.... Congratulations to Hannah Edgar, who, with the help of the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, will be writing reviews for the Chicago Tribune.... On Tuesday I will talk about Wagner and Wagnerism in conjunction with SF Opera's online Ring Festival. My interlocutor will be none other than Tony Kushner.

An Alvin Singleton moment

Alvin Singleton moments

Students from Curtis perform Singleton's cycle Argoru.

A (long) Klaus Lang moment

Ensemble Nikel in Battery Park, at TIME:SPANS 2019.