Times Union: “From the Top” at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 10/5/12
October 5, 2012 TROY – It was all about the cello on Friday evening,
October 5, 2012 TROY – It was all about the cello on Friday evening,
August 9, 2012 Matt Haimovitz is an American cellist who has a resume comparable to those of other leading cellists, but with a difference.
July 17, 2012 Shuffle.Play.Listen — that’s the title of a Matt Haimovitz/Christopher O’Riley double CD, which I should have blogged about ages ago, especially after I heard Chris and Matt […]
June 13, 2012 Someone just asked me which has the better classical music scene – London or New York. It’s a tough call,
June 12, 2012 On Sunday afternoon, the Uccello ensemble visited Bargemusic, the floating chamber music venue on a coffee barge tucked under the Brooklyn Bridge. Led by Matt Haimovitz, the […]
April 4, 2012 It’s not so often that Cincinnati, OH feels like the center of the musical world, and it’s even rarer that I get to work with several of […]
April 1, 2012 Composer Philip Glass featured the cello in his soundtrack to the Godfrey Reggio film “Naqoyqatsi,” he said, because “we think of the cello as the instrument closest […]
March 31, 2012 Cincinnati Music Hall 03/30/2012 – & March 31*, 2012 Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No. 2, “Naqoyqatsi” (world premiere) Matt […]
February 17, 2012 Covering wide swaths of musical genres in one concert program – and doing so successfully
February 16, 2012 More classical musicians have become restless about the standard repertoire than you might think. They don’t want the pieces they learned in school and are mentioned in […]
February 13, 2012 The Hamilton Philharmonic’s Masterworks Series continued tonight with Jamie Sommerville at the helm. We were given quite an evening of music, inspiration & were excited to hear
February 01, 2012 The winds of change certainly blew through the Perimeter Institute’s Event Horizons program this season. Previously, we had
January 20, 2012 I never dreamed I would hear a concert at the Performing Arts Center that would juxtapose Hitchcock movie scores, good jazz fusion, esoteric avant garde classical compositions […]
January 11, 2012 It was probably only a matter of time before Christopher O’Riley, a classical pianist who has performed the work of Radiohead and Elliott Smith, met up with […]
January 09, 2012 What’s the difference between the music of Janácek and that of the Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire? To hear Matt Haimovitz and Christopher O’Riley tell it, not […]
December 11, 2011 The music of John Corigliano was featured at the final concert of the American Masterworks String Festival on Saturday night. With the composer present to provide engaging […]