American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has become a fixture of American concert halls with his absorbing symphonies and chamber works, Romantic but technically tough-minded. Here the listener gets something different and more intimate: Kernis song cycles that in at least one case are quite personal; all are distinguished by the range of ...
The popularity of and resistance to Aaron Jay Kernis are each easy to understand. Kernis offers a dual kind of familiarity that will either delight audience members or set them on edge, according to their preferences and preconceptions. It is not just the use of popular music that has propelled Kernis to a prominent place on American concert ...
Chicago's Cedille Records, which draws on the talent and scenes of the City of Neighborhoods, may offer an ideal blueprint for classical music's revival. Releases like this document music-making that has succeeded with audiences in a specific time and place, and the label has highlighted performers who have a knack for finding contemporary music ...
It's probably a bit soon for a greatest-hits disc by the young Utah crossover group the 5 Browns, which may be why the more generic "favorites" was used in the subtitle here. Nevertheless, this sampling of the group's three discs so far serves as a decent introduction to this rather unusual piano quintet: one with five pianos and five young ...
Since 1921, the American Academy in Rome -- founded in 1894 and chartered by an act of the United States Congress in 1905 -- has offered an annual fellowship and two residencies to American composers to live and study in Rome for one year. By the time Bridge's four-CD compilation Americans in Rome is offered, 124 such positions have been offered ...
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