A Far Cry

Concert Review: A Far Cry’s Season Finale — The Ordinary Can Be Extraordinary

May 15, 2023
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A Far Cry’s program of new and old music revealed that the simplest gestures can generate wonder.

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Classical Concert Review: A Far Cry’s “Flames to Ashes”

December 22, 2021
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Thanks to a blend of compositional technique and solid musical grounding in each of the works, “Flames to Ashes” exceeded easy categorization.

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Concert/Stream Review: A Far Cry’s “Emergence” — Typically Eclectic

December 1, 2021
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The Crier’s program pairs three composers one doesn’t always find together. As is likewise the norm with this group and their selections, everything somehow connects – and on multiple levels.

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Music Preview: Music as Metaphor — A Far Cry, a Physicist, and a Composer Reflect on “Gravity”

April 11, 2019
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The music swelled as the early universe spun …

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Classical CD Reviews: “Visions and Variations,” “Songs From Chicago,” and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Beethoven and Ravel

August 23, 2018
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A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.

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Concert Review: A Healing Space — A Far Cry and the Miró Quartet Present “Loss and Resurrection”

April 16, 2018
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This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.

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Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2017

December 23, 2017
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A line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can’t, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.

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Commentary: 2017-18 Orchestral, Opera, and New Music Season Preview

September 13, 2017
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Some institutions’ offerings aren’t as challenging as they could be, but there’s a healthy balance between the familiar and new.

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Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry

April 16, 2017
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Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.

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Music Commentary/Preview: 2016 Fall Orchestral Season Overview

September 14, 2016
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In the six years I’ve now been reviewing for the Fuse, I can honestly say that the 2016-17 season looks to be one of the liveliest in recent memory.

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