Clare O’Connell ~ Light Flowing

In standard verbiage, light tends to glow, to shine, to radiate. In summoning an image of light as something that might flow, London-based cellist and curator Clare O’Connell evokes a subtle tension between stillness and movement, between seen and unseen,

ACL 2023 ~ The Happiest Music of the Year

There’s never a bad time for happy music.  Happy music comes in a variety of intensities, from peaceful and comforting to joyful and ebullient to silly and fun. The type of happy music one listens to can be tailored to

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective ~ Many Voices: Ensemble

How best to encourage young musicians?  One might teach them how to play the classics, or even provide them with a modern score (I recently heard middle schoolers playing the theme from The Avengers at a park festival).  Even better,

Bernard Rands ~ Chains Like the Sea

We love a unified thematic release.  Chains Like the Sea places its planets in alignment.  Robert Henry Harrison‘s cover art is the entry point.  This oil painting, Dylan Thomas Boathouse, is angular yet measured, a taming of wave and architecture, a fluid representation