Selected writings

Contents

• 2017 favorites
• 2018 favorites
• 2019 favorites
• 2020 favorites
• 2021 favorites
• 2022–23 favorites
• 2024 favorites (new 1/2025)
• Abrahamsen: Schnee
• The essential John Luther Adams
• Graciela Agudelo (1945–2018)
• Andriessen: Theater of the World
• Dominick Argento (1927–2019)
• Ana-Maria Avram (1961–2017)
• Bartók: Violin Sonatas
• Beckett, openness and experimental cinema
• Leonard Bernstein as performance: Bradley Cooper's Maestro
• Berio and Boulez in Morlot's farewell [untitled] for Seattle Symphony
• Harry Belafonte: The Angel Levine
• Berlioz at Seattle Opera: Beatrice & Benedict
• Boulez: Complete Works
• Bruckner: String Quintet
• Busoni: Doktor Faust (Jordan/Grüber, Zurich 2006)
• Cage:
  • Cartridge Music (a video introduction)
  • Music for Speaking Percussionist
• Cage, Jones, Namtchylak, Sciarrino, Westerkamp et al: 20 Jahre Inventionen II
• Elliott Carter (1908–2012)
• George Crumb in retrospect (new 5/2024)
• Elena Dubinets to Concertgebouw (new 11/2024)
• Hanns Eisler at 125
• Heiner Goebbels and Gavin Bryars: Recovered Voices and Radical Music
• Hába Centenary
• Barbara Hammer (1939–2019)
• Harris: Piano Quintet, String Quartet No. 3, Violin Sonata
• Hartmann: Concerto funèbre, Suites and Sonatas for solo violin
• Horse Lords in Seattle (new 7/2024)
• Jerry Hunt:
  • Unlikely Persona: Jerry Hunt (1943–1993)
  • Four Video Translations
  • from "Ground"
• Ichiyanagi: Sapporo
• Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3–4 et al (Seattle Symphony, Morlot)
• Scott Johnson: Mind Out of Matter
• Garth Knox: Crystal Paths for viola d'amore and Partch instruments
• Oliver Knussen (1952–2018)
• Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
• David Lang: symphony without a hero
• Langgaard: Symphonies
• Hannah Lash: The Peril of Dreams
• Steve Layton: No Answer
• Ligeti:
  • Part 1: György Ligeti's Musical Odyssey
  • Part 2: The late works of György Ligeti
• Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Phantom of the Opera
• Cecilia Lopez: Red/Machinic Fantasies
• Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
• Stuart McLeod: Tetratys - All Is Number
• Monteverdi/Frescobaldi: Salve Regina, newly discovered works
• The Best of Thelonious Monk: The Blue Note Years
• Jean Negulesco: The Invincible Six
• Phill Niblock:
  • Niblock at 85
  • China and Sunsets
• Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016)
• Partch:
  • Harry Partch: Celebrating a Musical Maverick
  • Not even Harry Partch can be an island
• Piano Drop at Jack Straw Cultural Center
• Preljocaj: La Fresque (music by Nicolas Godin)
• Prokofiev: Quintet
• Reich: Come Out as classic minimalism
• The Residents
  • The Residents present Charles Bobuck: Codgers on the Moon
  • Hardy Fox (1945–2018): Theory of Mashup
• Andrew Rudin: Tragoedia
• Rzewski at 80: Directions inevitable or otherwise
• Eric Salzman (1933–2017)
• George Schell obituary
• Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018)
• Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (Ruhrtriennale 2009)
• Seattle Symphony announces 2023–24 season
• Matt Shoemaker (1974–2017):
  • Mutable Depths
  • Memorial concert
• Untuxed, and Shostakovich, return to Seattle Symphony (new 9/2024)
• Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (reconstructed 1913 version)
• Taruskin: The Oxford History of Western Music
• Cecil Taylor (1929–2018)
• Tippett: The Ice Break
• Woody Vasulka (1937-2019)
• Zappa:
  • Civilization Phaze III
  • Philly '76
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Music for the (Un)faint of Heart