eMusic Archives: November 2010
Apollo Chamber Orchestra, John…
Alaska's JLA again, with a piece that somehow sounds like it was writ… more »
Various Artists, Wendy Mae Cha…
A composer who has divided her time between New Jersey and New Orleans, C… more »
Amernet String Quartet, Morton…
One of the defining sounds of modern American classical music is the use … more »
Kamikaze Ground Crew, Kamikaze…
They began as the pit band for the Flying Karamazov Brothers, in San Fran… more »
Sekar Jaya Gamelan, American W…
Before founding Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Ziporyn worked with the remarkab… more »
Steve Kuhn, Mostly Ballads…
It's unusual to hear a musician make technical advances past a certai… more »
New York Composers Orchestra, …
This ambitious, sporadic project offered some of NY's major Downtown … more »
Paul Dresher, Paul Dresher/Ned…
Paul Dresher is another electric guitarist/composer whose music is rigoro… more »
Arte Quartett, Terry Riley: As…
Terry Riley's piece "In C" is usually hailed as the work th… more »
Rolf Schulte, Milton Babbitt: …
Yes, this is the highest of the so-called high modernism, but it's no… more »
New York Treble Singers, Mary …
Leach is interested in the physical and acoustical properties of sound, a… more »
Gamelan Sekar Kembar, Lou Harr…
The late Lou Harrison had no time for the thorny academia of the classica… more »
Kyle Gann, Kyle Gann: Nude Rol…
America has a surprising tradition of composer/critics — a potentia… more »
Various Artists, Martin Bresni…
This is a very important record. Bresnick's reputation as a compositi… more »
Various Artists, Steve Mackey:…
Head far enough downtown and you'll end up in Princeton, New Jersey, … more »
Callithumpian Consort, For Lou…
Not to be confused with the Pulitzer Prize-winning, opera-writing Bay Are… more »
Gate 5 Ensemble, The Harry Par…
One of music's most eccentric figures, Partch rode the rails as a hob… more »
Jeanne Kirstein, John Cage: Mu…
New World Records reissued two different LPs here — the Feldman is … more »
Paul Motian, Lost In A Dream…
Drummer Paul Motian has always played against type. He generally leads hi… more »
Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Zipor…
Ziporyn is one of the central Downtown figures, the de facto leader of th… more »
Nick Didkovsky, Ice Cream Time…
A friendly title for some often-challenging music for electric guitar, sa… more »
Robert Miller, Sound Forms For…
The late Robert Miller offers four very different, but distinctly America… more »
Various Artists, Eve Beglarian…
Beglarian is a familiar figure on the NY scene — her works often in… more »
Various Artists, Stony Plain…
With one of the most diverse blues and roots rosters of the modern era, t… more »