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Janet Maguire might hold the record for blooming late as a composer. Born in Chicago in 1927, she has made her home in Europe nearly
Volume 2 of New World/CRI’s Harry Partch collection offers two very different large-scale creations from the maverick composer, theorist, and instrument inventor. The Wayward is
What is it about Margaret Brouwer’s music that makes it different from anyone else’s? On evidence here, the answer is “nothing.” Well crafted though it
Like other Chinese composers of her generation, Kui Dong (b. 1966) arrived in the United States (1991) with degrees from Beijing Conservatory but with very
I have to begin this review on a personal note. When I was 14 or 15 I had the good fortune to witness the premiere
CRI’s four-disc anthology encompassing all the recordings that outsider composer, instrument inventor, and maverick theorist Harry Partch made for his own Gate 5 label gain
In his Four Psalms John Harbison interweaves Hebrew poems (a Babylonian prayer, Psalms 114, 126, 133, and 137) with English texts of his own devising.
The assembled works on this Karel Husa collection come mostly from the composer’s later period, when his musical language became increasingly atonal. Deux Preludes opens
Steven Mackey (b. 1956) strikes me as a composer who takes himself too seriously, even when he is clowning around. All three of these works
This disc is a treat. In his excellent booklet notes, Kyle Gann points out the similarity between Beth Anderson’s homey, shamelessly tuneful works and those
