Daniel Stephen Johnson
Blog URL http://danielstephenjohnson.blogspot.com
Located New Haven, Connecticut USA
Tags music, classical, composers, literature, art, criticism, culture
Irreverent criticism of music, literature and culture, with a focus on new music and emerging composers.
Latest Blog Posts
- Uh-Oh on Nov 19, 2009 in Andres Kuspa Feinan Wang Vees Cerrone Adrian Knight
The good news is, I finally got around to interviewing New Haven new-music mainstay Jack Vees, apropos of tonight's performance of his Party Talk. The bad news is, Party Talk is canceled! The WORSE news is, I think it's because Timo Andres has swin...
- Your Daily Mindfuck on Nov 18, 2009 in Partch Beck Fiery Furnaces
First, via Timo Andres, Pitchfork follows up on this craziness (Fiery Furnaces guy mixes up Harry Partch, microtonal composer, with Harry Patch, the WWI vet the Radiohead song is about) with the even more bizarre announcement,Friedberger tried to cov...
- Have You Heard These Things? on Nov 14, 2009 in Mazzoli Greenstein Roomful of Teeth Victoire Arturo en el Barco
New Corey Dargel, everybody. He and violinist Cornelius Dufallo are premiering a new song-cycle at the Stone Nov. 29, and here's a taste—fiddle loops, brutal lyrics, 7/8 time. Highly recommended. It's like Owen Pallett meets Stephin Merritt meet...
- fuori dall'abitato di Malbork on Nov 12, 2009 in Sting Schubert
Okay this was kind of crazy. But the really crazy thing about this thing HERE Hurdy Gurdy Man - Stingis how not-bad it is. Sting's affected and overwrought Classical Voice was a colossal drag on his Dowland album, Songs from the Labyrinth—Dowland...
- The Importance of Being Kernis on Nov 12, 2009 in Kernis
I really, really, really wanted to use that as the headline for my review of Aaron Jay Kernis's deeply earnest Third Symphony.
- Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger Disses Radiohead, Is Dumb on Nov 11, 2009 in Partch Fiery Furnaces Radiohead
Or maybe he just mis-heard the interviewer? Anyway, here's the quote:When told that Radiohead's Thom Yorke sent out a mass e-mail describing the group's tribute song to the UK's last veteran of World War I, 'Harry Patch (In Memory Of),' Friedberger...
- In C Remixed: Too Much Remixed, Not Enough In C on Nov 8, 2009 in Riley Muhly Lang
That is the short version of my review. Glib, yeah, but it's true! The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble's interpretation of Terry Riley's masterpiece (I hate people who throw around "masterpiece" but, look, it just is, let's move on...
