Andres, Clyne

I first stumbled across the music of Timothy Andres when his teen-age Tango appeared as the closing selection of a 2003 edition of the NPR show From the Top. I wrote about him in 2004 and again at the end of a recent column on Louis Andriessen. This quietly awesome young composer has a major week ahead of him: on Monday night at Poisson Rouge, he and David Kaplan will give a live performance of Shy and Mighty (now out on Nonesuch), and on Thursday night, at a concert by the Metropolis...