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."
"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
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."
"I think for composers, you know your child better than everybody. You created it. But the child still has facets that you don't know and that will always be the case."
"The greatest music needs to be fearless. Ultimately you have to have faith in the music and that it will lead you to where it should be."