Jennifer Higdon is not only one of the most acclaimed of contemporary women composers, but one of the most widely performed and appreciated of contemporary American composers in general. Anyone unfamiliar with her work should check out at least one of her albums.Though not claiming to have synesthesia like Scriabin, color and visual imagery play ...
Among Aaron Copland's least-known compositions are his chamber pieces, seldom performed and recorded in spite of the composer's long tenure as the "Dean of American Music." This neglect has been attributed to the supposed difficulty of Copland's modernist style -- often featured in his chamber music -- which some have found less appealing than the ...
Speak Like the People, Write Like the King is a disc of string quartet music by New Jersey-based composer Steven Mackey featuring both the Borromeo and Brentano string quartets; in the case of Gaggle and Flock (2001), the two quartets play together. Mackey composed this work as a wedding present for Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang, who, at the time ...
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