Happy Friday and an early happy Birthday to Philip Glass who turns 87 on Wednesday. Welcome to New In Music This Week: January 26th.
The slow start to the year is finally over and there are a lot of new releases...
"I use music for a lot of different things. I want to bring something beautiful into the world. I also wanted to use it to question things."
Eight new album from classical and jazz artists make up this week's list.
"I have this intense drive to create. I didn't get into opera because of opera. I got into opera because I have a big voice and a lot to say."
Can the performing arts survive the unsteady ground on which they find themselves in 2024?
"Both Price and Bonds were teachers and fierce advocates for inclusion at a time when it was hardly popular."
"If anyone has experienced grief, we all know that this brings out the best and the worst in people around you."
Music by Miklós Rósza, Benjamin Britten, Lou Donaldson are more to enjoy
"I feel proud that he might really approve. I would love it if he would give me notes because his notes are so great."
This is the only way I can do this. I have to be honest. I want to make the audience feel with me. We are living this together."