BASSOON & FRIENDS
Originally Published By: The American Record Guide Bassoon & Friends BARTZ: Concertino; NIELSON: What About You?; GOTTSCHALK: American Nights; CWIK: 8 Miniatures Paula Brusky; Kay Kim, p; Wen-Lei Gu, v MSR 1367—61 minutes Not that the bassoon’s [...]
Paula Brusky: BASSOON AND FRIENDS on MSR
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine Classical Reviews - Instrumental Written by Jeremy Marchant Fanfare Magazine Wednesday, 21 December 2011 BASSOON AND FRIENDS • Paula Brusky (bsn); BCMCC Ch Players • MSR MS1367 (60:32) BARTZ Concertino. NIELSON What [...]
ClarinetFest: Day 3
Originally Published By: Clarinet Cache The Rico Bass Clarinet Blowout continued the bass clarinet madness in the Grand Salon. Michael Norsworthy, Rocco Parisi, Richard Nunemaker, and Henri Bok each performed a solo bass clarinet piece, and Tim [...]
Review: MILLENNIAL MASTERS – VOL. 2
ABLAZE RECORDS was looking for were two things as we approached this second Millennial Masters volume: great compositions and excellent performances that were well recorded. MICHAEL LEE was awarded a place on the disc for his Capriccio for Violin [...]
SCI Newsletter
Originally Published By: SCI Newsletter The concert closed with the delightful (and delightfully titled) Whack! by Art Gottschalk which pulled together the pitched and unpitched resources of the large percussion ensemble with a recorded electro-acoustic medium. The [...]
MÉLANGE: New Music
Originally Published By: SULLIVAN This enterprising program of new piano works is a mélange indeed, including Andrian Pertrout’s expressive ‘Song of Augmentation’, based on augmented chords and Golden Mean proportions; John Blair’s ‘Parallax’, improvised at the piano [...]
Review: Concerts highlight composers, innovations
Originally Published By: Express News A gratifying ratio of the recently hatched music presented at the national conference of the Society of Composers Inc., which was to wrap up Saturday in San Antonio, has balanced challenge and appeal. [...]
Four masters interpret American piano music
Originally Published By: The Philippine Star Vivacious Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney presented at the embassy ballroom four masters in a concert of contemporary American piano music. Ms. Kenney’s prefatory remarks stressed the universal appeal of music: Black, [...]
Asymmetry Music Magazine Classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries
Originally Published By: Asymmetry Music Magazine 2007 EMM Festival in Kansas City March 18th, 2008 Concert 8 Arthur Gottschalk, Cello: Fishing at Antibes, with Taylor Richardson, cello Hunter S. Long, One Blends Softly… Schuyler Tsuda, Parasites, with [...]
American Record Guide, November/December 2007
Originally Published By: American Record Guide Arthur Gottschalk’s Sonata for Alto Saxophone displayed a well-developed style, hinting at jazz influences without adopting them too obviously, and demonstrating a genuine skill for building drama and excitement. Luke Gullickson, [...]
Solo Piano Publications – CD Review – Mélange: New Music for Piano
Originally Published By: Solo Piano Publications “Mélange: New Music for Piano” is the first in the Performers Recording Series, an innovative series initiated by The Society of Composers, Inc. (a national organization for the promotion and dissemination of [...]
Concert Review #1
Originally Published By: Guy Vollen The second concert of Friday morning featured the New Century Ensemble, the University of Oklahoma’s new music group directed by Christina Jennings. First, Kenneth Fuchs conducted his own composition, Quiet on the [...]
2006 International Trumpet Guild
Originally Published By: Neville Young The Pfleeger Concert Hall was busy tonight, and buzzing with anticipation of Monarch Brass's concert. We weren't disappointed as this fine ensemble, representative of the cream of America's brass players, treated us [...]
Desperate Voices: The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble performs at Barnevelder
July 14 and 15, 2005 Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex By Linda Phenix The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble presented a concert on July 14 and 15 at Barnevelder Movement Arts Center, Houston's fun and relatively new hot spot for performance [...]
Review: THE FLIPSIDE
Originally Published By: All Music Guide Tom Bacon is a very fine French horn player, and it is not everyday that someone blows jazz solos on the horn. Nevertheless, this short (45'35") album rarely rises much above [...]
Concert Review: #2
Four orchestral compositions graced the boards of Mitchell Hall Friday afternoon, led off by the University of Central Oklahoma Chamber Orchestra under dynamic conductor Hong Zhu. Stephen Yip’s Infinite Rain shimmered with veiled tone colors through the composer’s use [...]
