The music swelled as the early universe spun …
A Far Cry
Classical CD Reviews: “Visions and Variations,” “Songs From Chicago,” and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Beethoven and Ravel
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.
Concert Review: A Healing Space — A Far Cry and the Miró Quartet Present “Loss and Resurrection”
This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.
Music Commentary: Top Classical Performances and Recordings of 2017
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.
Commentary: 2017-18 Orchestral, Opera, and New Music Season Preview
Some institutions’ offerings aren’t as challenging as they could be, but there’s a healthy balance between the familiar and new.
Concert Review: Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry
Sometimes new music isn’t really new and old music isn’t actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.
Music Commentary/Preview: 2016 Fall Orchestral Season Overview
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.
Fuse Concert Review — A Far Cry’s “All-American” Finale
One takeaway from the concert: music can be forward-looking and even provocative without being off-putting and ugly.
Fuse Concert Review: A Match Made in Heaven — A Far Cry and Blue Heron
I look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.
Fuse Commentary: 2013-1014 Orchestral Season Preview
So, even though certain pieces by Mendelssohn and Beethoven seem to be turning up with greater frequency than perhaps may be healthy, there is still much to admire and look forward to in the upcoming orchestral season.