ARTICLES

2016

Liner Notes for The Complete Songs of Virgil Thomson for Voice and Piano

Florestan Recital Project

Sequenza 21: Some Thoughts About/Memories of Max

2008

Boston: William Bolcom's Eighth Symphony

Tempo Vol. 62, No. 245 (Jul., 2008)

Boston: Elliott Carter's Horn Concerto

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 244 (Apr., 2008)

London, Arcola Theatre: Richard Beaudoin's 'Pierre' in Progress

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 243 (Jan., 2008)

Reviewed Works: Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff; The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 246 (Oct., 2008)

Reviewed Work: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 244 (Apr., 2008)

Reviewed Work: Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 243 (Jan., 2008)

Reviewed Works: Peter Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 by Peter Maxwell Davies; Maxwell Davies: Ave Maris Stella; Psalm 124; Dove, Star-Folded; Economies of Scale by Maxwell Davies

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 245 (Jul., 2008)

Reviewed Works: 'Darkness Visible'. Philip Grange: Cimmerian Nocturne; Lament of the Bow; Variations by Philip Grange, Gemini, Ian Mitchell; 'Zeitgeist: Music of Philip Grange'. The Kingdom of Bones; Lowry Dreamscape; Diptych; Concerto for Solo Clarinet Radical and Symphonic Wind Band: Sheng Sheng Bu Shi by Philip Grange, Linda Hirst, Northern Music Theatre, Graham Treacher, Sun Life Band, Roy Newsome, Okoeanos: Jinny Shaw, Lucy Wakeford, Sarah Williamson, National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, Phillip Scott; 'Borderlands: Contemporary British Piano Trios'. Camden Reeves: Starlight Squid. Paul Mealor: Borderlands. John Pickard: Piano Trio. Philip Grange: Piano Trio: Homage to Chagall by Camden Reeves, Paul Mealor, John Pickard, Philip Grange, Nicoline Kraamwinkel, Tim Gill, Julian Rolton

Tempo: Vol. 62, No. 243 (Jan., 2008)

2006

Reviewed Work: Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice by Kyle Gann

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 238 (Oct. 1, 2006)

Proms 2005 (2): Unsuk Chin, Sorensen, Hayes, Salonen

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 235 (Jan., 2006)

MIT: Free Speech Zone/National Insecurity

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 236 (Apr., 2006)

Reviewed Works: Ben Johnston: String Quartets nos. 2, 3, 4, and 9 by Ben Johnston, The Kepler Quartet; Martin Bresnick: My Twentieth Century by Martin Bresnick, Robert Van Slice, Kunihiko Komori, Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, Norichika Iimori, Taimur Sullivan, Maya Beiser, Steven Schick, Povera Players; Julius Eastman: Unjust Malaise by The Creative Associates at SUNY Buffalo, New Music America, Julius Eastman, Frank Ferko, Janet Kattas, Patricia Martin; Kyle Gann: Long Night by Kyle Gann, Sarah Cahill

Tempo Vol. 60, No. 238 (Oct. 1, 2006)

Reviewed Works: William Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Bolcom, Christine Brewer, Measha Brueggergosman, Hana Davidson, Linda Hohenfeld, Carmen Pelton, Joan Morris, Marietta Simpson, Thomas Young, Nmon Ford, Nathan Lee Graham, Tommy Morgan, Peter 'Madcat' Ruth, Jeremy Kittel, The University of Michigan Musical Society Choral Union, Chamber Choir, University Choir, Orpheus Singers, Michigan State University Children's Choir, Contemporary Directions Ensemble, University Sumphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin; Aaron Copland: Inscape. Roger Sessions: Symphony no. 8. George Perle: Transcendental Modulations. Bernard Rands:...Where the Murmurs Die... by Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, George Perle, Bernard Rands, The American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein; Kyle Gann: Nude Rolling down an Escalator: Studies for Disklavier by Kyle Gann

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 235 (Jan., 2006)

Reviewed Works: Aaron Copland and His World by Carol J. Oja, Judith Tick; Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War by Elizabeth B. Crist; The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity by Nadine Hubbs

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 236 (Apr., 2006)

Reviewed Works: The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Music by Nicholas Cook, Anthony Pople; The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin

Tempo: Vol. 60, No. 235 (Jan., 2006)

1993

A New Goehr Work in Boston

Tempo: New Series, No. 185 (Jun., 1993)

Henze's Eighth Symphony in Boston

Tempo: New Series, No. 187 (Dec., 1993)

Reviewed Work: Virgil Thomson: Lord Byron by Matthew Lord, Jeanne Ommerle, D'Anna Fortunato, Richard Zeller, Richard Johnson, Gregory Mason, Stephen Owen, Adrienne Csengery, Thomas Woodman, Louisa Jonason, Donald Collup, David Murray, Jorg Westerkemp, Martin Kelley, Ted Whalen, John Holyoke, David Stoneman, Debra Vanderlinde, Marion Dry, Manadnock Festival Orchestra and Chorus, James Bolle, Virgil Thomson

Tempo: New Series, No. 186 (Sep., 1993)

Reviewed Works: 'Are You Experienced?' David Lang: Are You Experienced? (1987); Orpheus over and under (1989); Spud (1986); Illumination Rounds (1982) by Jay Rosen, David Lang, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Lorraine Vaillancourt, Double Edge, Edmund Niemann, Nurit Tilles, Rolf Schulte, Ursula Oppens; Lee Hyla: The Dream of Innocent II (1987). Donald Martino: Parisonatina Al'Dodecafonia (1963); Suite of Variations on Medieval Melodies (1952). Steven Mackey: Rhondo Variations (1983). Arthur Berger: Duo for Cello and Piano (1951). Webern: Two Pieces (1899), Cello Sonata (1914), Three Little Pieces, Op.11 (1914) by Rhonda Rider, Lee Hyla, James Pugliese, David Kopp, Donald Martino, Steven Mackey, Arthur Berger, Webern; Stephen Hartke: Oh Them Rats Is Mean in My Kitchen (1985). John Harbison: Four Songs of Solitude (1985). Yehudi Wyner: Concert Duo (1957). John Cage: Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard (1950) by Michelle Mikarski, Ronald Copes, Brent McMunn, Stephen Hartke, John Harbison, Yehudi Wyner, John Cage

Tempo: New Series, No. 184 (Mar., 1993)