
Had this sort of collection been released a few years ago, it wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun: It would have been full of
Richard Stoltzman, long a champion of contemporary music, presents four striking new works, all composed in the 1990s. Stoltzman brings a deep understanding of and
David L. Post’s Symphony No. 1 (1995) invites the listener in with its primarily tonal construction on traditional symphonic techniques. The music’s harmonic palette is
MMC’s New Century series continues to present interesting and challenging works by American composers that, due to the increasingly pop-managed classical recording industry, might not
Here we have an enterprising and mostly successful disc of recent works by unknown American composers. Ethan Haimo’s Symphony for Strings is a terse study
During his 45 years as a scientist Dr. Hilary Koprowski made significant research contributions in the field of viral diseases, cancer, and rabies. However, he
Robert Starer (b.1924) composed Samson Agonistes as a ballet for Martha Graham in 1960 and revised it for full orchestra in 1963. It is very
The music of Nicholas Underhill is hard to define. It sounds like everything–or nothing at all. His Piano Concerto (1993) opens with a banal, minimalistic,