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Susan Bernofsky's Walser Biography, and touching on Sebastian Currier and Anna Weesner

16 January 2022
Bernofsky & Walser –Clairvoyant of the Small– The Life of Robert Walser By Susan Bernofsky Susan Bernofsky’s biography beautifully captures the sweep of Walser’s crazy life, despite gaps with scant records of his …
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Molly Morkoski performs Nocturne in the Age of Covid-19 by Gary Philo

19 November 2020
Migratory V and SoundScore Present M u s i c - i n - t h e - T i m e - o f - C o v i d-19 Molly Morkoski performs Nocturne in the Age of Covid-19 by Gary Philo GARY PHILO, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, grew up in Yorktown Heights, NY, …
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Jonathan Dawe's Nero @ Ballet-Opéra-Pantomime, Montreal

16 June 2018
Christophe Huss’s review in Le Devoir leaves little to add, but I wish to provide a bit of context that Mr. Huss could not know. How does Nero differ from Dawe’s other operas? –Nero’s Baroque moments are far more subtle. In …
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Curating New Music: The ISCM Delegates

29 May 2018
In Search of the Obvious Good Robert Levin, master pianist and Mozart expert, was fond of telling his students that Beethoven’s music caused people to run out of the concert hall and vomit. He told us the story of Haydn telling Beethoven to tone …
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An American Wonder: Arlene Zallman

24 April 2016
Arlene Zallman’s Wikipedia Entry Her work is powerful, striking, perhaps even a bit eccentric. Interesting to note some jazz people getting behind her work, and I have to agree with the superlatives–what an ear! What good sense to study …
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