Catching Up a Bit
Apologies to the many of you who subscribe to catch a review or thought or two. The month of May was just a bit too hectic here due to...
UPDATE ALERT: Premiere in Lowell, MA (April 25)
It has been a little while since I've had time to share much about what is going on on my own composition/performance front and April is...
Chestnuts Breaking Barriers From Ontario
Breaking Barriers Tanya Charles Iveniuk (Vivaldi), Yanet Campbell Secades (Bach), violin; Marlene Ngalissamy, bassoon. Ontario Pops...
Dave Flynn Goes Full Circle
Dave Flynn: Full Circle Dave Flynn Collective/Bjorn Bantock Michael Jorgensen, violin; Adrienne Winninsky, cello; Maya Kasir, voice;...
Musical Responses to Crumb's Makrokosmos at 50
Throughout music history, composers faced with new shifts of tonal thinking and instrumental capacity often will create a series of...
The Bookending Of French Organ Music
First and Last (Franck/Vierne) Christopher Houlihan, organ. Church of the Ascension, New York Azica ACD-713256 Total Time: 70:07...
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2022 IFMCA AWARDS
• BEAR MCCREARY WINS SCORE OF THE YEAR FOR EPIC TV SERIES THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER; ALSO NAMED COMPOSER OF THE YEAR,...
INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) announces its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2022, for...
Williams Celebrates 91st Birthday!
Today marks the birthday of one of the most well-known film composers of our time, John Williams. A year ago, on the older Xanga site, I...
Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s (Whiplash) Babylon is set against the early days of Hollywood and focuses on the cultural freedoms of decadence and...