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- Good choice, Nadia, I like the smaller-but-regular Dose of Sirota approach, too. And a grand theme for the week. We're hearing the Missa of our friend Pēteris Vasks as I write this (7:10p Monday), seems to go well with your Tombeaux, Elegies and Threnodies.
Welcome back!
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- This is great. I heard Mazzoli's intro to her "A Song for Mick Kelly" earlier this weekend -- loads of insight into what she's doing there.
This is one of Q2's greatest services, the "composer portal" function that gives us access to more than the finished product. Especially with composers as articulate as Mazzoli, Muhly, Greenstein, Burhans, Andres, Bryars, Salonen, and more (could we get some sound from Bjarnason, maybe? also Vasks!), it's all the better. Great stuff, thanks. Hearing these intros makes me wish I'd had a chance to talk with Mazzoli about her work earlier in the season when I ran into her at Symphony Space.
This is a nice write from Daniel Stephen Johnson, and I'm very glad to see him bylined on it -- good credit where it's due, as it is for all writers. Especially good on the Mazzoli-Monk connection: "Her early mentor Meredith Monk toys with handfuls of pitches, making slight variations, but playfully as well as meditatively. It's the tension created by the relentless forward motion of Mazzoli's music, that ticking pulse, that gives the music the sense of a choked-up faltering between pitches."
Quite so. And in case anyone hasn't been aware of it, Krista Tippett at On Being has just released a terrific hourlong interview with Monk: http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2012/meredith-monk/
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- Nice review. Would love to see a byline here. Crediting writers is just as important as crediting musicians.
And btw, no download or listenable track for this one? Surely as good as Q2 and is listeners are to Kronos and Nonesuch, they can find it in their hearts to throw us a bone. It's not like they don't have enough CDs to sell. :)
- Really looking forward to this, thanks for doing the webcast. Those listening, here's the Times' piece from a few days ago about yMusic (with Q2 Music's Nadia Sirota): http://ow.ly/8W7Db (story by William Robin).
- Totally into this John Luther Adams "Earth and the Great Weather" from the private Synergy recording. And so good to hear Matt McBane, a top-100-under-40 we don't seem to hear as much as others in Q2ville. Of course, Timo's Onion. Great program today (and all week), this is a super theme, Nadia, thanks! -p.
- Really looking forward to this, Rowell is a powerhouse, what a treat.
- Only wish is that we'd had a live chat for this one, would have been cool. But a superb concert, Ecstatic is off to such a great start this year, and THANKS, Q2 Music, for the livecast tonight!
- #nowplaying Blossom, @jherekbischoff voice. Wordless Music Orchestra. LIVE audiocast @Q2Music @EcstaticMusic @MerkinConcert http://ow.ly/8Sy5R
- #nowplaying The Nest, w/ Mirah, voice (fab); Paris Hurley, violin; Wordless Music. @EcstaticMusic @MerkinConcert @Q2music
- New Music Army standing by!
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