For the first of the mixed-composer programs -- an evening of choral music built around the Lutheran Christmas chorale "Vom Himmel Hoch" -- the series moved last Tuesday to Riverside Church, which affords a more appropriate setting and acoustics for the music at hand.
Still, a more clinical perspective failed to defuse this potent mix of composer and interpreter.
Gordon-Reed notes that the music of mixed-race composer Joseph de Boulogne was in the air, and, as I add to the Hemingses Playlist, I see that history records that Jefferson saw the contemporary Grétry opera "Richard Coeur de Lion" twice.
Mix philosophers, composers and machines, and the results are so Finnish, so cool!
Phoenix musician and Ascetic House label/collective co-proprietor, J.S. Aurelius, has shared a degraded, unpredictably mood-shifting new mix on Houston composer Rabit's label Halcyon Veil.
The festival includes a mix of musicians, composers, scholars and academic panels.
Themes from Greek and oriental antiquities were added to the mix, creating for the composer an interior landscape of exotic imagery, material for dream and fantasy, by means of which he could distance the immediacy of life.
A young Israeli choreographer, Inbal Pinto has peopled her new "Wrapped" with happy and sad characters that include white-robed dwarfs and Siamese twins, all moving with abandoned grotesqueness to a wild mix of music by composers who include Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Ben Webster and Beethoven.
No one has even written for these before, so we are going to have to now commission music.' " The project resulted in a debut album last September, "Beautiful Mechanical," which presented an intriguing mix of conventionally classical composers, pop artists venturing their first instrumental compositions and musicians like Mr. Lott who sit comfortably between the ephemeral divisions of genre.
Nolan spent six months mixing the sound with composer Hans Zimmer, re-recording mixers Gary Rizzo and Gregg Landaker and sound designer Richard King.
