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A Catastrophic Purity

by Nathan on March 5, 2022April 8, 2022

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

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