American Ultramodernists 1920-1950 is a collection of piano pieces by early American modernist composers that may be loosely classified under this term as performed by Steffen Schleiermacher for the MDG Scene imprint. Schleiermacher has imbibed at this particular spring before in some of his Hat Art recordings, but it appears that he has not ...
Sequitur is a New York-based contemporary music ensemble that mixes up its bill of fare between conventional concerts, programs incorporating elements of dance and theater, and cabaret. Reviews on the New York concert circuit are generally laudatory, and Sequitur has instituted a label, Sequitur Recordings, to propagate the work of both the ...
"That Carl Ruggles," musicologist Mike Seeger once said with a knowing smile "was a piece of work." Ruggles was enormously versatile artistically and could claim creative mastery as a composer, painter, orchestra builder, symphonic bandleader, music teacher, and raconteur. Yet Ruggles was also curmudgeonly, irascible, vulgar, and temperamental, ...
String Poetic -- American Works: A 21st Century Perspective is the fifth album violinist Jennifer Koh has made for Çedille Records; here pianist Reiko Uchida, who is a member of Columbia University's Moebius Ensemble, joins Koh in a recital of four works. A highly interesting program puts a challenge to received notions as to what shakes out in ...
Perhaps an identifiable hallmark of American music is individualism; this trait is certainly present in these works. In his Three Places in New England, Charles Ives conveys a kind of boisterous nationalism, though the fragments of patriotic tunes and hymns are refracted through his filters of polytonality, clustered harmonies, and counterrhythms. ...
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