Feb 21, U of Chicago Logan School of the Arts
Third Coast Percussion plays the Chicago premiere Augusta Read Thomas' Resounding Earth, an evocative work exploring the sound world of bells written for them and released on their CD/DVD set on New Focus earlier this year. Peter Margasak, writing for the Chicago Reader, observes, "Third Coast …
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Three new February releases mark the debut of Olde Focus Recordings, a new line of recordings focusing on new recordings of gems from the early music repertoire. Curated by cellist and director of period ensemble ACRONYM, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Olde Focus kicks its series off with recordings of three …
Continue reading →Collection of American piano premieres on "vernacular" theme
Nicholas Phillips' laudable new commissioning project, American Vernacular, featuring new solo piano works by composers ranging from David Rakowski to Ethan Wickman to Joel Puckett, was featured recently as Q2's Album of the Week as well as in a review in Sequenza 21. "Phillips achieves the …
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New Focus Recordings is an artist-led collective label featuring releases in contemporary creative music of many stripes, as well as new approaches to older repertoire. The label was founded by guitarist Dan Lippel, composer Peter Gilbert in 2004, and composer/engineer Ryan Streber in 2004, formed …Read More …
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