Welcome to the last weekend in July and to New In Music This Week: July 25th. This week I have a diverse line-up of recordings to choose from. They all have something unique to offer.
My top pick for New In Music This...
"It's a new technique for me in composition, which is to take text and to use that text as if I were setting it to be sung, but it's never sung."
"It's a jukebox musical, for God's sake. Yet it goes to a very rich, fertile, dark, joyful place."
This week's Best Bets: July 21st - July 27th contain a few firsts: a first-time visit by a centuries old orchestra; a legendary soprano makes her directorial debut and a novel considered to be one of the best crime...
The LA Philharmonic's recording of "Yanga'" by Gabriela Ortiz tops this week's list
"This quartet is essentially a manual I've written for myself to survive this current moment in history."
6 Streaming Jazz Concerts from the 92nd Street Y is one of our Best Bets!
Jaleel Shaw's "Painter of the Invisible" tops this week's list
The last weekend in June isn’t loaded with a lot of new releases, but what it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality. Welcome to New In Music This Week: June 27th.
My top pick is:
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL: DUNBAR/MOORE...
"Pastoral" by Pam Tanowitz and Caroline Shaw is one of this week's highlights.