March 30, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 17th Winter Works UCSD Department of Theater and Dance Student performance, Faculty Choreography I am so grateful Allyson Green, Chair of the Theater and Dance Department, invited me to this wonderful night of dance. I wouldn’t have known about …
March 30, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 15th Pablo Gomez Graduate Recital UCSD Conrad Prebys Hall This was a lovely recital for primarily solo acoustic guitar. Pablo played the works of some composers unfamiliar to me: Leo Brouwer, Hilda Paredes, Uros Rojko. The composers with whom …
March 30, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 11th UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater Stephen Solok. percussionist Doctorate of Musical Arts Candidate This was quite a night for grand performance. The Grad students here continue to amaze me. Thank you. Stephen Solok presented a concert …
March 25, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
March 9th UCLA Royce Hall Stew and The Negro Problem While living in NY I saw Stew’s “Passing Strange“ three times: twice at the Public Theater and once on Broadway. Needless to say, I was highly impressed with this play …
March 23, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound
March 6, 2012 | Posted in Fresh Sound, So Forth
Fresh Sound Music Space 4 Art - San Diego, CA Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Ches Smith, drums; Jeff Parker, guitar This was the first Fresh Sound concert at Space 4 Art and it went well; thank god. There was a full …
March 3, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
Other Minds Festival of New Music 2012 March 1, 2, 3 Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA The panel discussion tonight was once again interesting and informative beginning with Tyshawn who talked about his work as “composite reality.” I think …
March 2, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
Other Minds Festival of New Music 2012 March 1, 2, 3 Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA The panel discussion was with tonight’s composers Harold Budd, Gloria Coates, Ikue Mori and Tyshawn Sorey. I was particularly fascinated by Harold Budd …
March 1, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
Other Minds Festival of New Music 2012 March 1, 2, 3 Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, CA This concert featured the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa. The panel discussion before the concert was led by the Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian with the …
February 28, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
7:30 pm Scott Amendola, drums and Charlie Hunter, guitar Anthology I love Scott for his musical talents and for his great personality. So I was pleased to learn that he and Charlie would be in town for one night. I …