Boston: Practice Sessions. Reviewing Keeril Makan’s Letting Time Circle Through Us and Bernard Rands’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.
NewMusicBox, April 15, 2014.
NewMusicBox
Boats against the current
New England’s Prospect: Beyond the Sea. Reviewing Matthew Ritchie’s Monstrance/Remonstrance.
NewMusicBox, April 8, 2014.
Screen Gems
New England’s Prospect: The Gift of Sound and Vision. Reviewing Ben Russell and Robert A. A. Lowe.
NewMusicBox, March 28, 2014.
Friends and relations
New England’s Prospect: The Agnosticism of Boston’s Equilibrium Concert Series. Reviewing Boston Modern Brass.
NewMusicBox, March 3, 2014.
Unwrapped
New England’s Prospect: Boston Symphony Chamber Players Celebrate 50 Years.
NewMusicBox, February 18, 2014.
Thicker than water
Drinks below! But first, some catch-up:
New England’s Prospect: Three World Premieres. Reviewing the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
NewMusicBox, January 28, 2014.
Reviewing Kirill Gerstein.
Boston Globe, February 3, 2014.
Score: Toshirō Mayuzumi, on screen and in the right-wing arena.
Boston Globe, February 9, 2014.
Score: “Will You Walke the Woods So Wilde” and the ways of musical celebrity.
Boston Globe, February 16, 2014.
Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra, playing West Side Story.
Boston Globe, February 16, 2014.
While you read, here’s a little something—chewy and fruity in equal parts—to get you through this last stretch of winter and into spring.
Thorolf’s Bowl
1 oz. aquavit
1 oz. Cynar
1 oz. lemon juice
½ oz. blood orange-rosemary cordial (see below)
dash of orange bittersShake all ingredients with ice and strain into something that’ll look good sitting on your sacrificial altar.
For the blood orange-rosemary cordial:
1 cup blood orange juice
½ cup sugar
1 tablespoon rosemary
½ cup or so of blood orange peels (without the pith)Combine in a pot and bring to a boil; simmer until reduced to about a cup of liquid. Strain out the rosemary and peels.
Group theory
New England’s Prospect: Fellow Travelers. Reviewing the Fifth Floor Collective.
NewMusicBox, January 24, 2014.
Enduro
Score: the Atari 2600 and the Phrygian mode.
Boston Globe, January 5, 2014.
This might be my favorite one of these columns so far. Oh, and I forgot to link to one over the holidays:
Score: Paul Whiteman’s Eighth Experiment in Modern Music.
Boston Globe, December 22, 2013.
One more? One more:
New England’s Prospect: May All Your Christmases Be Weird.
NewMusicBox, December 23, 2013.
A yuletide respite, courtesy of Weirdo Records.
Call rival out, initially; swords cross in challenge! (9)
New Music Boxes: Another Year’s Gone By.
An occasionally topical crossword for NewMusicBox, December 18, 2013.
Also, what with the holiday rush, I forgot to link to this month’s Score columns:
Score: Walter Marchetti’s precision troublemaking.
Boston Globe, December 14, 2013.
Score: Ceremon[ies] of Carols and the collecting impulse.
Boston Globe, December 7, 2013.
Score: the crafty respectability of John Knowles Paine.
Boston Globe, November 30, 2013.
Beat the clock
Reviewing Boston Musica Viva.
NewMusicBox, November 25, 2013.
Reviewing Discovery Ensemble.
Boston Globe, November 26, 2013.