Nuvo Review: Ensemble presents Shuffle.Play.Listen ****
February 17, 2012 Covering wide swaths of musical genres in one concert program – and doing so successfully
February 17, 2012 Covering wide swaths of musical genres in one concert program – and doing so successfully
February 20, 2012 Welcome to an artistic pairing for the future. Cellist Matt Haimovitz, perhaps the first classical musician to take his music and instrument into club settings, and pianist […]
February 17, 2012 Breaking the mold is a long-honored aesthetic perspective. Yet, the presentation of classical music has been centered on the concert hall since the 19th century. Concerts in […]
February 16, 2012 Matt Haimovitz didn’t pay much attention to popular music growing up. But as one of the best-established concert cellists of his generation, he has since picked up […]
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 16, 2012 Pianist Christopher O’Riley has a simple philosophy when it comes to music. “There’s good music and the other kind,” he says. O’Riley, host of the weekly radio […]
February 15, 2012 Christopher O’Riley sees Shuffle.Play.Listen, his new classical-pop fusion project with cellist Matt Haimovitz, as something of a celebration of our technological climate; no neo-Luddite wedded to the […]
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 07, 2012 Shuffle.Play.Listen – when an album name comes with such specific instructions, a larger point is trying to be made. And in the Matt Haimowitz/Christopher O’Riley case file, […]
February 06, 2012 Christopher O’Riley, prolific musician and host of the NPR program From The Top is joining cellist Matt Haimovitz for a tour in support of their latest collaboration, […]
January 31, 2012 Perhaps best known for the NPR series From The Top, musician Christopher O’Riley is far more in-tune with music than most of the world. Not only does […]
January 29, 2012 Macalester College plays host to one of the most eclectic musicians of his generation when cellist Matt Haimovitz visits the campus as part of the New Music […]
January 22, 2012 Cello magician Matt Haimovitz and pianist extraordinaire Chris O’Riley tackle diverse superstars ranging from Stravinsky to the Cocteau Twins on their latest disc, the mindblowing Shuffle.Play.Listen. Whut? […]
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 19, 2012 Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O’Riley have invented a format aimed directly at anyone who has fiddled with an iPod. They call it “Shuffle. Play. Listen.” […]
January 18, 2012 ALL MUSIC CREATES communities of fans, and those fans who gather together create subcultures, each with their own aesthetic style, language and social codes. There has been […]