Thursday, April 22, 2010
They Couldn't See JACK
Get it??? Because the JACK Quartet played Georg Friedrich Haas's third string quartet, In iij. Noct in absolute darkness (windows blacked out, EXIT signs covered(!)) at Pasadena's Monday Evening Concert series. This photo was taken through night vision goggles for Mark Swed's LA Times review, which you must read here. Sounds incredible.
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The Bodies Keep the Score
Another summer festival review for Parterre ! This time, Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies, at Lincoln Center.
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First! Everybody buy the new Kronos Quartet CD, which has liner notes by one of my favorite Gregs. The Nonesuch.com store has it on sale, ...
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Opera is an anachronism. It was an anachronism from the moment it was invented—wasn't it?—the last gasp of the neoclassical tendencies ...

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