Behold, I build an house

Reviewing the Lorelei Ensemble.
Boston Globe, May 25, 2015.

Voice over

Reviewing Chameleon Arts Ensemble.
Boston Globe, May 19, 2015.

Ghost, writer

Reviewing Guerilla Opera and Per Bloland's Pedr Solis.
Boston Globe, May 17, 2015.

Marginal utility

Reviewing the Talea Ensemble in Georges Aperghis' Happy End.
Boston Globe, May 11, 2015.

The cinema firmament

Reviewing ALisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan.
Boston Globe, May 3, 2015.

A feeling that no one can ever reprise

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Chamber Players.
Boston Globe, April 27, 2015.

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear

Reviewing the International Contemporary Ensemble.
Boston Globe, April 20, 2015.

You can hear from far and near

Reviewing Boston Musica Viva.
Boston Globe, April 14, 2015.

So many people you can check up on

Reviewing LAN, Anne-F. Jacques, and Benjamin Nelson.
Boston Globe, April 7, 2015.

Hit parade

Reviewing Third Coast Percussion.
Boston Globe, March 23, 2015.

Déjà vu all over again

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and Emanuel Ax.
Boston Globe, March 17, 2015.

Hanging on the Telephone

Digital to Analog: Plug and Play. Connections, made and missed.
NewMusicBox, March 11, 2015.

When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry

Reviewing O+A.
Boston Globe, March 8, 2015.

Scanning life through the picture window

Reviewing the Calder Quartet.
Boston Globe, February 23, 2015.

Wandle, wandle deine Bahnen; Nur betrachten deinen Schein

Reviewing Renée Fleming and Olga Kern.
Boston Globe, February 10, 2015.

Fly-By-Wire

Reviewing Paavali Jumppanen, Jeffrey Means, and Hans Tutschku.
Boston Globe, February 6, 2015.

Schematics

Digital to Analog: Poems and Histories. Andrew Pekler, Vicky Chow, and technologies evident and hidden.
NewMusicBox, February 4, 2015.

For Andrew Patner

Francis Poulenc's VIIème Improvisation en ut majeur (recorded with my phone on my out-of-tune piano):



Andrew approached culture the way Julia Child approached food: as an object of exacting yet unassuming erudition; as an avenue of elegant, unfailing generosity; and as a source of immoderate pleasure. Like everyone else who ever met him, I will miss him.

Karamu, fiesta, forever

Reviewing the Cantata Singers.
Boston Globe, February 2, 2015.

Sing a song, it'll make your day

Reviewing Anne Sofie von Otter and Angela Hewitt.
Boston Globe, January 26, 2015.