3 posts tagged “piano”
There should be a blog site entirely devoted concert reviews of music performances that entirely sold out ... meaning that every seat in the house was taken. I've been to two recently. Robert Ashley's Opera "Concrete" and a young jazz pianist Gerald Clayton. Both shows were phenomenal. Best Opera and straight-ahead Jazz I've ever seen. Here are some links below.
NYTimes reviews of Ashley's "Concrete"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E7DF1E30F93AA25752C0A9619C8B63
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F10FE39540C778DDDA80894DF404482
NYTimes review of Gerald Clayton
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4DD1030F936A25752C0A9619C8B63
My album Pachyderm is now available from the iTunes Store! And it just made it to number 7 on the October playlist at Free 103.9 (a pirate radio collective turned non-profit that promotes "transmission arts").
The first track is a 20 minute solo piano improvisation (early free-jazz Onsgard). The second is a 40 minute long post-minimalist semi-improvised composition for three pianos recorded live (three pianists!). If you would prefer to purchase an actual CD, they are available from my website Onsgard.net.
Track 1. Solo April 1998 (excerpt)
Track 2. Spinning Dance (excerpt)
If you haven't yet experienced my homepage, I just put up some new audio excerpts of my new solo piano repertoire. Very cool!
Special thanks to Izumi for her fabulous web design!
