
String Theory is a seven-minute rhythmic fantasia for strings and percussion that’s over before you know it. Chesky is a very serious composer, and like
David Chesky deserves major props for writing one of the best “classical” pieces yet to incorporate the electric guitar–a wonderful instrument that lots of modern
David Chesky comes of age as a “classical” composer with these two concertos, in which his personal brand of Latin jazz finds itself in the
It would be easy to criticize these sincere and competent efforts–three orchestral “psalms” in memory of the “victims of the modern Holocausts”–for their wanting of
David Chesky’s The Agnostic is an oratorio that grapples with questions of God, loss of faith, Ego, surrender, and the ascendancy of man. The work