★★★★★
It's a wonder how art (read: "classical") music has arrived at the stage it has now. The three major periods of art music - the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic - all had overarching traits that gave a unity to the various composers. And while concert halls worldwide still revel in the mastery of those long-gone composers, the people involved in contemporary art music seem to have become as diversified as the other major music genres...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-04-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: 1/1; 1/2; 2/1; 2/2. Personnel: Maya Beiser: cello; Evan Ziporyn: clarinets, keyboards/samplers (1); Mark Stewart: guitar; Steven Schick: percussion; Lisa Moore: piano, keyboards; Robert Black: bass...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Exactly where does repetition become monotony? On their latest release, New York's Bang on a Can navigates the elusive middle ground between simplicity and unrelenting tedium, and they do it with varying success. The group is the product of Lincoln Center's music festival that bears the same name, which was founded in 1987 to bring "new" music to the selective masses who had grown weary of the classical canon...
- prefixmag.com
2008-07-06