Will Mason -- Photo by Erin Lobb Mason
Album

Will Mason’s “Hemlocks, Peacocks” Draws Upon Art and Poetry for a Transportive Listening Experience

Anna Webber, Daniel Fisher-Lochhead, deVon Russell Gray, Panoramic Recordings, Will Mason, Will Mason Quartet
Spending time with an album inspired by other artistic references feels akin to watching the bonus features of a movie – new points of view avail themselves for consideration, and additional rabbit ho…
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Claire Chase -- Photo by Karen Chester
Album

Claire Chase Explores Minutiae and Ubiquity in Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “UBIQUE”

Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Density 2036, Katinka Kleijn, Seth Parker Woods
In Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5, a solo flutist pushes and shoves through ever widening intervallic leaps in a tumultuous journey that contrasts climactic highs with pensive, even fatigued lows. Even…
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Sarah Belle Reid -- Photo by Etta Gerdes
Interview

5 Questions to Sarah Belle Reid (performer-composer)

Ryan Gaston, Sarah Belle Reid, Vinny Golia
As a classical trumpeter, Sarah Belle Reid felt that she was constantly being asked to emulate the sound of someone else. Boxed in by black and white ideas of what constituted good or “wrong” playing,…
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María Valencia -- Photo by Darja Stravs Tis
Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: María Valencia (February 20, 2025)

Adolfo Pacheco, ATI, Bituin, Botero Delgado Dúo, Carmelo Torres, Carolina Noguera Palau, Damián Ponce, Deimar Pio Molina, Enrique “Kike” Mendoza, Ensamble de Cámara, Ernesto “Teto” Ocampo, Hurakán Orkan, Hyperculte, Juanita Añez, Juanita Delgado, Los Toscos, María Valencia, Marin Marais, Meridian Brothers, MULA, Natalia Valencia Zuluaga, Oláceas, Pérez, Quatuor Diotima, Santiago Botero, Santiago Cañón, Tortuga Alada, Trio Lesión, Valentina Añez, Vientox
María “Mange” Valencia. Saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer from Bogotá – Colombia. Lover of spider stories and the diagnoses of neurologist Oliver Sacks. She has been…
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Julia Bullock, Christian Reif, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra -- Photo by Lawrence Sumulong, courtesy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Concert

Julia Bullock’s “History’s Persistent Voice” Collapses the Past and the Present at Lincoln Center

Alice Tully Hall, Allison Loggins-Hull, Carolyn Yarnell, Chris Johnson, Christian Reif, Craig Anthony Ross, Hana S. Kim, Jessie Montgomery, Julia Bullock, Lincoln Center, Pamela Z, Stephan Tieszen, Tania León, Una Marson
The idea for soprano Julia Bullock’s project “History’s Persistent Voice” came eight years ago when composer Jessie Montgomery asked if she would be interested in collaborating on new arrangements of…
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