Alex Ross's Blog, page 67
March 18, 2019
New piano concertos by Adès and Adams
The Concerto Challenge. The New Yorker, March 25, 2019.
March 12, 2019
Versuch über Wagner
This is my first and final meme.
March 11, 2019
Now playing: Riot Ensemble
A very strongly recommended collection of Czernowin, Thorvaldsdottir, Ivičević, Lim, and Saunders, on Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
February 16, 2019
An ordinary evening in Los Angeles
Ryoji Ikeda's 100 Cymbals and Alison Knowles's Proposition #2: Make a Salad were performed last night at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The salad was quite delicious.
February 14, 2019
Eternity, by Alban Berg Valentine
DR. SCHÖN: It must be your husband's blood.
LULU: No traces remain.
— Lulu, Act II
Previously: An Alban Berg Valentine, Another Alban Berg Valentine, Yet Another Alban Berg Valentine, Return of Alban Berg Valentine, Nothing says forever like an Alban Berg Valentine, Alban Berg Valentine (10th anniversary edition), Alban Berg Valentine (2017 edition), Will you be my Alban Berg Valentine?
February 11, 2019
Sonnambula, Orliński
Deep Cuts. The New Yorker, Feb. 18 and 15, 2019.
February 5, 2019
January 30, 2019
Gabriel Kahane's Book of Travelers
A Cultural Comment on the New Yorker website.
For Sanford Sylvan
"How much of what we did was good?" Just about everything.
January 21, 2019
Prototype Festival 2019
De Profundis. The New Yorker, Jan. 28, 2019.
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