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Guerrieri: Sonos in Aere (I Love to Hear the Story) (PDF, 46 Kb)This year's Christmas carol was supposed to be one of two: I wrote a sweet one and a not-so-sweet one, but the text permission for the...
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Pierre Boulez, composer and conductor, insurgent and praetor, the refiner's fire, died yesterday at the age of 90.He smashed icons, only to later hold their shards up to the light and reveal how their...
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I spent last weekend packing up our house so we could move, listening to David Bowie the whole time, beginning with the new album, Blackstar, then following the hard drive on its automatic pilgrimage...
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It seems that this space is destined to be updated only in transit. The last post (five months ago?! yikes) was written in the midst of a change of abode, and now we are preparing to move Soho the Dog...
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Recent Score columns:July 22, 2016: Remembering Justin HollandA sketch of the guitarist, pedagogue, and activist (and birthday buddy).July 29, 2016: George Butterworth, composer and casualtyKilled a...
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"Snapshot of the Duruflés arriving at Holiday Inn in Lancaster, c. 1966, photographer unknown. Left to right: Maurice Duruflé, Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier, Ralph Kneeram." (Source: Maurice...
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Guerrieri: Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob (2016) (PDF, 45 Kb)New program year, new introit. This one recombines a gradually-unveiled 12-tone row into triads and near-triads, which then...
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Reviewing Dinosaur Annex.Boston Globe, September 20, 2016.Once again reviewing for the Globe, at least for the time being—with a concert that, it turned out, was all about the time being.
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Which is to say, cinema pioneers moonlighting as famous composers.Johann Sebastian Bach (Vladimir Gardin) gets Anton Ivanovich Voronov (Nikolai Konovalov) to lighten up in director Aleksandr...
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Score: Leonce de Saint-Martin and the liberation of Paris.Boston Globe, September 26, 2016.
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But has no one realized that I might be artificial by nature?—Maurice RavelOne notable bit of pop-music news last week was the release of a new box set of recordings by the late David Bowie, called Who...
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Score: The funeral march's public and private origins.Boston Globe, September 30, 2016.
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Score: On Huillet and Straub's Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach.Boston Globe, October 7, 2016.Screening next Friday (10/14).
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Reviewing Fretwork and Suzie LeBlanc.Boston Globe, October 10, 2016.
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Score: Tristan Murail's Vampyr!, deep inside distortionBoston Globe, October 14, 2016.
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I'm totally behind on links, so let's catch up:Score: William Merritt Chase—an American Impressionist and his instruments.Boston Globe, October 21, 2016.Score: Rosemary Brown and her famous (dead)...
View Article"Do as I do"
Jean Jaurès before the storm, and Jean Jaurès after. Go back to July of 1898, the height of the Dreyfus Affair. At the end of 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian-born, Jewish officer in the...
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Catching up on weekend links:Score: the exacting world of piano wire.Boston Globe, November 11, 2016.(In advance of Eli Keszler's performance this Friday in connection with his installation Northern...
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Guerrieri: ¡Alégrense! (2016) (PDF, 49Kb)One of the side benefits of a church-music gig is that you get to spend a fair amount of time living in the future. For instance, we're only halfway through...
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Score: Charles Theodore Pachelbel's fragmentary life.Boston Globe, November 18, 2016.
View Article"We seem to go extremely slow, / it is so hard to wait!"
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, and I hope it's a fine one for anyone reading. Here's what we'll be offering guests at the door—a bright, fruity counterbalance to a ton of...
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This site is now officially a ghost town—though, rest assured, the ghosts will remain, lively and fractious. Please visit sohothedog.com for more current contemplations.
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