Posts filed under ‘Review’
The Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams
Ryan Banagale on a recent arrangement and performance of Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite.
Continue Reading January 11, 2011 at 5:34 pm Ryan Raul Bañagale 4 comments
Brian Wilson Reimagines Rhapsody in Blue
Ryan Banagale offers some thoughts on the recently released _Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin_ album. Surprise, surprise: The conversation quickly turns towards _Rhapsody in Blue_.
Continue Reading August 23, 2010 at 10:12 pm Ryan Raul Bañagale 5 comments
Paul McCartney’s Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Concert
Ryan Raul Bañagale blogs on the Library of Congress’s 2010 Gershwin Prize winner Paul McCartney, the concert in his honor, and the un-honored collaborative process that made his most beloved songs possible.
Continue Reading July 30, 2010 at 8:10 am Ryan Raul Bañagale 4 comments
Guest Blog by Lincoln Ballard: Review of the 2010 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project
Reporting from his hometown of Seattle, guest blogger, Lincoln Ballard, reviews the 2010 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project. This year’s theme was “The Pop Machine: Music + Technology.”
Continue Reading April 26, 2010 at 7:38 am amusicology 6 comments
The Fisk Op. 46 Organ Celebration Series at Harvard
Ryan Raul Banagale reviews one recital in a series of organ concerts at Harvard’s Memorial Church celebrating the instrument’s impending departure and tells us a little bit about why it is time for its approximately 4,500 pipes to ease on down the road.
Continue Reading November 7, 2009 at 12:20 pm Ryan Raul Bañagale 1 comment
On the paranoid style in the music of They Might Be Giants
Drew ruminates on a favorite group of his.
Continue Reading October 6, 2009 at 11:00 am Drew Massey 3 comments
Harvard Group for New Music; Firebird Ensemble
Drew reviews the Harvard Group for New Music Concert of last weekend; Firebird’s performance of the Origin Cycle of the present week.
Continue Reading April 29, 2009 at 7:55 am Drew Massey 1 comment
Garrett, Struggling to Define a Nation
Drew’s long delayed review of Garrett’s book. Actually, more of a response to part of it.
Seda Roeder: Mozart/Brahms/Berg
A review of Seda Roeder’s triumphant first recording.