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Concert Review: Jonathon Heyward Conducts Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center in Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, Anna Clyne’s Saxophone Concerto ‘Glasslands’

Jess Gillam, Jonathon Heyward with the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, July 22-23, 2025

A glowing new concerto for soprano saxophone by Anna Clyne made in its New York premiere together with music by Brahms and Emilie Mayer.

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Music Review: Amos Elkana – ‘Que sais-je?’

Amos Elkana with his father Yehuda Elkana, ca. 1935

Yugoslav-Israeli intellectual and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana may be best known for his insistence that a people must leave the traumas of the past behind in order to thrive. With 'Que sais-je?' Amos Elkana, Yehuda's son, has created a profound portrait in music of his father.

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Music Reviews: A Live Buck Owens Compendium, plus Tami Neilson, Maria Muldaur, Jeffrey Foskett, and a Rockabilly Anthology

buck owens in concert

“Buck took the shuffle beat and he took the lyrics and the style of honky-tonk, and he added the spunk, the vitality of rock and roll to his sound.”

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Review: ‘Music for New Bodies,’ a Symphonic Concert Opera by Matthew Aucoin, Staged by Peter Sellars

Music for New Bodies

Aucoin's vision asserts itself from the first touch of the first movement's mysterious music, with fluttering melodies from angsty high-pitched woodwinds and metallic percussion strokes.

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Book & Music Reviews: A Biography of Joe Meek, England’s Counterpart to Phil Spector; plus Bobby Lee Trammell, the Rain Parade, and Brian Wilson

Joe Meek

As Darryl W. Bullock writes in 'Love and Fury: The Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek,' the producer was a “pioneer, genius, maniac, naif…all of those things…and more.”

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