A Catastrophic Purity

I wrote about new music and neoliberalism for this month’s issue of The Baffler.

Commedia Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Nathan Aspinall conducting 12:43
Vigil Tanglewood Brass, Nuno Silva conducting 15:01
String Quartet no. 2 JACK Quartet 10:27
Ricercar Greenwood Orchestra, Benjamin Rous Conducting 8:26
Variations for Piano Andrew Hsu, piano 12:48
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: I Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Otto, violin, Kevin McFarland, cello, Edward Neeman, piano 5:10
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: II Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano, Christopher Otto, violin, Kevin McFarland, cello, Edward Neeman, piano 13:57
String Octet Yura Lee, vln., et al. Joshua Gersen, conducting 11:56

Nathan Shields