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Tag Archives: Community MusicWorks
Love, Our Inalienable Right
Home, for Syrians exiled by war, is gone, irretrievable, a lost paradise just as it is, at the same time, a place forever unattainable and mythic. Listening to concerts this week by Kinan Azmeh, the Syrian clarinetist and composer, I … Continue reading
What is Home? Kinan Azmeh talks (plays, blows, travels).
Kinan Azmeh is an existential wanderer and a supreme musician who finds homes around the world. He was riding the New York subway, just back from a musical tour in China, when he described the genesis of a piece he’ll … Continue reading
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Tacos, Baskets, Emanuel Ax
To stage a happening, you put unfamiliar elements together and see what happens. Put a classical superstar pianist like Emanuel Ax in a taqueria like La Lupita, in the Spanish Olneyville neighborhood of Providence. Let it rip. In he walks, … Continue reading
A Bow Maker Takes Aim
World-renowned violin bow maker, Benoît Rolland has a talent for hearing vibrations within a block of wood. He’s also a person with a keen sensibility for spanning extremes, for finding connections between things that seem vastly separated – like a … Continue reading
Beam me up, Tavener!
This week I watched Community MusicWorks in rehearsal as the orchestra welcomed and was perplexed by its new strange piece – “The Protective Veil” by contemporary British composer John Tavener. Its form is so unusual that it was hard for … Continue reading
Tattoo by Ken Ueno, Ovid and Joyce
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes – Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 18 And he sets his mind to unknown arts. A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man, by James Joyce, epigraph I … Continue reading