At the finals of the 1927 Southern California Oratorical Contest, an idealistic Los Angeles High School senior delivered the winning speech on the newly erected (and short-lived) Lloyd Wright ...
The four men worked in shirtsleeves, practicing alone on the barren stage, rigid on their chairs, laboring in total concentration to draw from their instruments the warm, expressive voices that ...
Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...
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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critics’ Notebook The JACK Quartet and the Danish String Quartet presented new works that nodded to the past and spoke to the present. By Joshua ...