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
EA Bucket 4.
Of fictitious composers, Gustav Aschenbach may well be the most famous. There are others, of course, but can you name one who appears in a crime novel?
EA Bucket 4.
Of fictitious composers, Gustav Aschenbach may well be the most famous. There are others, of course, but can you name one who appears in a crime novel?
Fresh and Canned
Wozzeck may be this season’s biggest surprise at The Metropolitan Opera.
Fresh and Canned
Wozzeck may be this season’s biggest surprise at The Metropolitan Opera.
Mostly Symphonies 2.
With tour experience the proving ground, Fischer bucks convention, placing the Andante before the Scherzo.
Mostly Symphonies 2.
With tour experience the proving ground, Fischer bucks convention, placing the Andante before the Scherzo.
“Come io passo l’estate”: Italian Vacation 3.
A crisp division separates Castiglioni’s silvery Cangianti (Changes) from his other piano works. The 11-minute fingerbuster parallels other contemporaneous mid-century work, except that Castiglioni was more given to cantabile gestures than his Darmstadt pals.
“Come io passo l’estate”: Italian Vacation 3.
A crisp division separates Castiglioni’s silvery Cangianti (Changes) from his other piano works. The 11-minute fingerbuster parallels other contemporaneous mid-century work, except that Castiglioni was more given to cantabile gestures than his Darmstadt pals.
“This Represents At Least a Thousand Words I Was Not Counting On”
This new recording of Berio’s ambitious Sinfonia is the best yet, upstaging Boulez’s aggressive 1984 reading.
“This Represents At Least a Thousand Words I Was Not Counting On”
This new recording of Berio’s ambitious Sinfonia is the best yet, upstaging Boulez’s aggressive 1984 reading.
Dipping into the EA Bucket 3.
Cello / synthesizer duet Orning and Wallumrød’s fine Albedo disc delivers vivid, arresting ea… The pair’s brief improvisations take the odd-tracks.
Dipping into the EA Bucket 3.
Cello / synthesizer duet Orning and Wallumrød’s fine Albedo disc delivers vivid, arresting ea… The pair’s brief improvisations take the odd-tracks.
“Presque Fin”: Ferrari Almost Final
Robert Moog’s death on August 21, 2005 overshadowed Luc Ferrari’s passing the very next day.
“Presque Fin”: Ferrari Almost Final
Robert Moog’s death on August 21, 2005 overshadowed Luc Ferrari’s passing the very next day.
Repetition Isn’t Always the Same
Minimalism has long since crawled out of its shoebox… Bernhard Lang and Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky have poured the Kool-Aid into plastic cups of different sizes.
Repetition Isn’t Always the Same
Minimalism has long since crawled out of its shoebox… Bernhard Lang and Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky have poured the Kool-Aid into plastic cups of different sizes.
Mostly Symphonies
Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.
Mostly Symphonies
Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.
Netherlands Winds and Friends
A few months ago, two delicious surprises appeared in my mailbox, both leading to other discoveries. I had never heard the impeccable Netherlands Wind Ensemble, despite their varied Chandos releases…
Netherlands Winds and Friends
A few months ago, two delicious surprises appeared in my mailbox, both leading to other discoveries. I had never heard the impeccable Netherlands Wind Ensemble, despite their varied Chandos releases…