Classical
WQXR Hosts John Luther Adams Pre-Release Listening of 'Become Ocean' (Cantaloupe Records) on September 12
REPORT: Konfrontationen, Day 2 - 35th Festival for Free & Improvised Music @ Nickelsdorf - Andrew Choate
Improvised music, for those of us that really love it and pursue it and listen to it regularly, is often, perhaps surprisingly, a very private music. We often listen to recordings privately, and we have private experiences with the music. But this festival provides the opportunity to experience it publicly, with a large enough amount of people (300-400) to provide the perfect framing of attention and grandeur that the music challenges itself to conjure. Not only that, but enthusiasts like myself are given the opportunity to thank the musicians who make this music and who have devoted so much of themselves to it. That opportunity to give thanks to the people who do things you really care about isn't necessarily bigger than the experience of the music, but it does perfume the air of the Jazzgalerie with another layer of love. Björk Receives Tribute from Sydney Chamber Choir's Paul Stanhope and The Idea of North's Naomi Crellin in Australia
Björk’s work yet receives another tribute, this time by way of the Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Paul Stanhope and Naomi Crellin with The Idea of North for Going Bjork in Australia. The a capella event also showcases Scandinavian classical and contemporary composers The Real Group, Knut Nystedt, Jan Sandström and ABBA.
