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Mercer has remained relatively consistent over the course of his career, fronting the Portland-based indie rock band The Shins for over a decade now. Danger Mouse, however, is known for branching out and mixing musical styles. His rise to fame came with 2004’s �...
Cortese took a moment before the second piece, Music for Orchestra II, to commemorate its composer Leon Kirchner. Kirchner, who passed away last September, was a professor in the music department from 1961 to 1991 and conducted Harvard musicians and orchestras around the world. Though far removed from the romantic...
The night of Chopin, Kirchner, and Brahms required musicians of high caliber. Not only did the student musicians demonstrate this necessary technical skill, they exemplified a maturity of interpretation far beyond their years.
The evening began with Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major. The piece established the neo-classical flavor of the night’s first three works with sweeping, sometimes dissonant harmonies punctuated by pizzicato and sharp percussion. Cohler presented the third and fourth movements with...
Well, let's see: '62, '72, '82, '92, 2002--that's 42 years of recording for other people. I thought, At this point, it's time for you to record for yourself. That way there wouldn't be so many spoons in the soup. There would just be one Aretha...