Score: On Goblin and Suspiria.
Boston Globe, October 13, 2017.
Globe Articles
Met it, face to face
Score: Thelonious Monk and “April in Paris.”
Boston Globe, October 6, 2017.
Wash me throughly
Score: Liszt and the fountains at the Villa d’Este.
Boston Globe, September 29, 2017.
Love Is Not Enough
Score: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s indiscriminate excellence.
Boston Globe, September 27, 2017.
Big wheel keep on turning
Reviewing Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry, premiering Philip Glass.
Boston Globe, September 25, 2017.
The mountain in front passes by, giving way to the mountain behind
Score: On Isang Yun.
Boston Globe, September 15, 2017.
Handful of Keys
Score: Remembering François Rilhac.
Boston Globe, September 1, 2017.
I first found out about Rilhac through YouTube; here’s a couple excerpts from a concert he gave with Louis Mazatier in June of 1987. First, Rilhac’s version of Donald Lambert’s version of Wagner’s “Pilgrim’s Chorus”:
And here he is—somehow efficient and yearning at the same time—playing Jerome Kern’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”:
It flows by my window
Score: “The Housatonic at Stockbridge” in word and note.
Boston Globe, August 25, 2017.
Commissions
Score: Razumovsky, Beethoven—and Sweden, and Verdi.
Boston Globe, August 18, 2017.
Get it together
Score: On Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union.
(This makes 200 of these columns, incidentally.)