Managing Editor Grant Chu Covell works in the Boston area. He once worked for a global technology company that made hardware which Xenakis and Babbitt used to good effect. He was the publisher of the brilliant but forgotten The Periodic Journal of Bibliography (1990-95), and his music reviews have appeared in EAR Magazine and InMusic. His instrumental and electroacoustic music has been performed in the U.S. and abroad, and he has shared many CDs of his music with family and friends (one piece was recorded in a refrigerator). A short article about a composition he wrote for piano and tape can be found in the Csound Magazine. Two electroacoustic works have appeared in commercial compilations: Presence III and The Door Project. A recent CD can be found here, and another is in preparation. A long departed family dog’s name was taken from a character in Wagner’s Ring.
Grant Chu Covell
Armchair Operas and Amusements 10.
The 89-minute documentary coalesces around the work that Barshai considered his most important: completing Bach’s Art of Fugue and producing a performing edition of Mahler’s Tenth.
Armchair Operas and Amusements 10.
The 89-minute documentary coalesces around the work that Barshai considered his most important: completing Bach’s Art of Fugue and producing a performing edition of Mahler’s Tenth.
(Dis)Arrangements 4: Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Mozart’s arrangements take slight liberties: His sources strayed from Bach’s original, not because Mozart thought to make improvements.
(Dis)Arrangements 4: Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Mozart’s arrangements take slight liberties: His sources strayed from Bach’s original, not because Mozart thought to make improvements.
Hungarian Holiday 3.
Intended as comic contrast to Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Vajda’s 30-minute Barbie Blue gives the woman the upper hand. Seven scenes echo Bartók’s seven doors as Mrs. Blue lurches through different emotional states after her husband returns home inopportunely.
Hungarian Holiday 3.
Intended as comic contrast to Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Vajda’s 30-minute Barbie Blue gives the woman the upper hand. Seven scenes echo Bartók’s seven doors as Mrs. Blue lurches through different emotional states after her husband returns home inopportunely.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 4.
Cuckson and Burns offer the first 5.1 surround sound release of La lontananza. Given the violinist moves through space, this format makes perfect sense.
Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi: Necessary Nono 4.
Cuckson and Burns offer the first 5.1 surround sound release of La lontananza. Given the violinist moves through space, this format makes perfect sense.
EA Bucket 20.
Perhaps Hunt really was a technology-adept medium reinterpreting mystical pronouncements by John Dee and Edward Kelley. Or maybe the convoluted proclamations are mere sleight-of-hand.
EA Bucket 20.
Perhaps Hunt really was a technology-adept medium reinterpreting mystical pronouncements by John Dee and Edward Kelley. Or maybe the convoluted proclamations are mere sleight-of-hand.
Piano Factory 13.
Manhkopf’s vigorous attacks remind that the piano does not sustain. Indeed this conceit sparks Rhizom, a Glenn Gould homage, in which multiple layers of material intersect and interfere.
Piano Factory 13.
Manhkopf’s vigorous attacks remind that the piano does not sustain. Indeed this conceit sparks Rhizom, a Glenn Gould homage, in which multiple layers of material intersect and interfere.
Atopos Survey 2. / EA Bucket 19. / Italian Vacation 12.
Curran’s Endangered Species is likely to be one of the best CDs I will have heard all year, and it’s on a favorite new label.
Atopos Survey 2. / EA Bucket 19. / Italian Vacation 12.
Curran’s Endangered Species is likely to be one of the best CDs I will have heard all year, and it’s on a favorite new label.
Where Varèse lived
Captured in New York City with snow on the streets after a winter storm, views of the house where Edgard and Louise Varèse lived.
Where Varèse lived
Captured in New York City with snow on the streets after a winter storm, views of the house where Edgard and Louise Varèse lived.
Ensemble Klang’s Colors and Melodies
The recent arrival of Goebbels’ Walden sparked revisiting a few prior Ensemble Klang albums.
Ensemble Klang’s Colors and Melodies
The recent arrival of Goebbels’ Walden sparked revisiting a few prior Ensemble Klang albums.
Atopos Survey 1. / Italian Vacation 11. / Piano Factory 12.
Although Atopos has been around for over a decade, I’ve only just discovered them. The emphasis is of course Italian, the sensibility suggesting various late-20th century Italians taking cues from European (Darmstadt) and American (Cage, Feldman, et al.) trends.
Atopos Survey 1. / Italian Vacation 11. / Piano Factory 12.
Although Atopos has been around for over a decade, I’ve only just discovered them. The emphasis is of course Italian, the sensibility suggesting various late-20th century Italians taking cues from European (Darmstadt) and American (Cage, Feldman, et al.) trends.
Concerto Concentrations 2.
Commissioned by Myers to commemorate his mother’s passing, McLean provides a particularly expressive tonal work, a welcome cross between Barber and John Adams… The Shostakovich arrangement is the biggest effort, difficult all around.
Concerto Concentrations 2.
Commissioned by Myers to commemorate his mother’s passing, McLean provides a particularly expressive tonal work, a welcome cross between Barber and John Adams… The Shostakovich arrangement is the biggest effort, difficult all around.
(Dis)Arrangements 3: Shostakovich Preludes
To accompany their Brandenburg Concerto release, Ensemble Caprice’s director arranged six preludes and one fugue from Op. 87 in complementary instrumentation. It doesn’t sound like Shostakovich – more like polytonal Rameau.
(Dis)Arrangements 3: Shostakovich Preludes
To accompany their Brandenburg Concerto release, Ensemble Caprice’s director arranged six preludes and one fugue from Op. 87 in complementary instrumentation. It doesn’t sound like Shostakovich – more like polytonal Rameau.