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The engaging voice of composer Kevin Puts
There are unexpected perks that can come with receiving a Pulitzer Prize, as composer Kevin Puts discovered last Tuesday.
"It was 'Kevin Puts Day' here," he said by phone from his home in Yonkers, N.Y. "There was a nice ceremony with the mayor. I got a...Tags: Entertainment Events, Radiohead (music group), Awards and Prizes, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music
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Madeleine Peyroux: 'Growing toward the sun'
With a timbre suggestive of Billie Holiday and an intimate style of phrasing that needs only the subtlest twist of a syllable to hook a listener, Madeleine Peyroux has cleared a distinctive path in today's jazz world.
That path does not include a lot...Tags: Norah Jones, Billie Holiday, The Rolling Stones (music group), Arts, Bare (music group)
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Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are
For an artist who has released some of the most transcendent albums of the last two decades, Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce is remarkably down on the process of recording them: “I really don’t like making records,” he says. “...
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The best presents for the book nerds on your gift list
It Chooses You, by Miranda July (McSweeney's, 2011)
The filmmaker/artist/poet/fiction writer Miranda July is well-known for her movies, whose moods share a kind of charming sincerity with that of her other work. Last month, July's first attempt at...Tags: Pauline Kael, Grandmaster Flash, Music, Cormac McCarthy, Joan Didion
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Music review: Steve Reich's 75th birthday concert at Disney Hall
Culture MonsterBang on a Can celebrates its 25th anniversary by honoring Steve Reich's 75th birthday for a Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday night.... -
Critic's Notebook: Steve Reich and Bang on a Can All-Stars
Pop & HissSteve Reich celebrates his 75th birthday by performing his landmark "Clapping Music," and offering a hard, distorted version of his recent "2x5."... -
The Pierces at the Hotel Cafe
Pop & HissThe sisters skewer the social mores of the young and restless in their Hotel Cafe show. The material is largely fresh, more shiny and sensual than older tunes.... -
Album review: Kronos Quartet: Music of Vladimir Martynov
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the Kronos Quartet's magnificent new recording of the music of Vladimir Martynov.... -
Tonight's top show: Steve Reich Tribute at Millennium Park
Steve Reich tribute: Two Chicago ensembles, eighth blackbird and Third Coast Percussion, will honor avant-garde composer Steve Reich on his 75th birthday by performing some of his finest pieces, including "Double Sextet," "Mallet Quartet" and the...Tags: Music Industry, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Millennium Park
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Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer talks Monk, swing and Twitter
Perhaps it's built into the fabric of jazz that we listen for — and even expect to hear — quantum leaps from time to time, steps that mark distant degrees of separation from what's already known and anticipated.
When you listen to Vijay Iyer'...Tags: Litchfield Jazz Festival, NPR, Charlie Parker, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
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Does this CD cover go too far?
Nonesuch Records recently revealed the cover image for their new release of Steve Reich's "WTC 9/11," performed by the Kronos Quartet: a picture of the second plane captured mid-flight by photographer Masatomo Kuriya before it hit the second tower.
So...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth screen Chronology in Fairfield on Nov. 21
New York City, not the sanitized, post-Giuliani one-percenter playground but its grittier, darker 1970s precursor, is on the minds of a lot of people these days, from Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott, whose memoir Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and...Tags: Dick Clark, Entertainment Events, Grandmaster Flash, MTV (tv network), Jonathan Demme
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