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Jon Sobel

Jon Sobel is Publisher and Executive Editor of Blogcritics as well as lead editor of the Culture & Society section. As a writer he contributes most often to Music, where he covers classical music (old and new) and other genres, and Culture, where he reviews NYC theater. Through Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting at http://www.orenhope.com/ you can hire him to write or edit whatever marketing or journalistic materials your heart desires. Jon also writes the blog Park Odyssey at http://parkodyssey.blogspot.com/ where he is on a mission to visit every park in New York City. He has also been a part-time working musician, including as lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado.

Concert Review: ASPECT Chamber Music Series – ‘French Impressions’ (Debussy, Chausson) (27 February 2020)

Grace Park and Gilles Vonsattel at ASPECT Chamber Music's 'French Impressions' concert. Credit: Joshua Brown Photography

Violinist Grace Park, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and the Calidore String Quartet played music by Claude Debussy and Ernest Chausson in the latest ASPECT chamber music concert.

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Jazz Reviews: Albare, ‘Albare Plays Jobim’ and John Di Martino, ‘Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn’

albare

Jazz guitarist Albare's tribute to Jobim and pianist John Di Martino's to Strayhorn show how homages to classic composers can bring out today's artists' creative best.

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Concert Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble – ‘The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing’ (NYC, 17 Feb 2020)

Mirror Visions Ensemble

Four singers and a pianist swung from romance to riotous humor to wartime pathos, delivering musical settings of letters from different eras with force and feeling.

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