May 24, 2017 The Des Moines Symphony ended its 2016-2017 season with a (percussive) bang with works by Hindemith and Ravel bookending the world premiere of a commissioned video accompaniment […]
May 19, 2017 (This review is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell.) The composer John Luther Adams who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean. […]
May 19, 2017 What’s the likelihood that the two opening works on a program featuring John Luther Adams’ Become Ocean would hold their own alongside that epically enveloping, meticulously churning, […]
March 21, 2017 György Ligeti | Credit: Co Broerse The accordion, Renaissance motets, and Samuel Beckett — it’s an improbable festival that brings these things together — but then, György […]
December 2, 2016 “We’re looking for the event in the crypt,” I announced. “Where is the crypt?” Four alarmed eyeballs stared back at me. It was the second day of […]
November 27, 2016 All photos by Andre Gagne. What is a genius? That question itched me throughout the The 11th Glenn Gould Prize Awards concert “The Genius of Philip Glass” […]
November 27, 2016 At Southam Hall Reviewed Saturday I’ve sometimes tried to imagine the expression that Brahms or Mahler or Prokofiev would have worn when hearing their music played back […]
