Night After Night

New Music Boston: June 2015

Matthew Aucoin, by Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe

 

NEW MUSIC BOSTON
June 2015

(Updated June 1)

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Chris Watford + Transient Canvas
Presented by Equilibrium Concert Series
Music by Beau Kenyon, Timothy McCormack, Zach Sheets, and Scott Wollschleger
Davis Square Theatre, 255 Elm St., Somerville
8 p.m.
$10
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American Repertory Theater
Matthew Aucoin, Crossing
Rod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer Zetlan, A Far Cry
Citi Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$25-$110
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Trio Cleonice and Friends
Richard Wernick, Sonata for Two; Passamezzo; plus works by Beethoven and Schubert
Joel Krosnick, Samuel Rhodes, Emily Wright
The Parlor at the United Parish Brookline, 210 Harvard St., Brookline
7 p.m.
$15 suggested donation, students $5
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3

Timothy Tikker
Vincent Persichetti, Sonata for Organ; Ross Lee Finney, Five Fantasies for Organ - 4. The Leaves on the Trees Spoke; Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension; Albert Ahlstrom, Symphony for Organ - 3. Final; plus works by Johann Sebastian Bach, W. Eugene Thayer, and César Franck
Methuen Memorial Music Hall, 192 Broadway, Methuen
8 p.m.
$12, children $5
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American Repertory Theater
Matthew Aucoin, Crossing
Rod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer Zetlan, A Far Cry
Citi Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$25-$110
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Callithumpian Consort
Helmut Lachenmann, Got Lost; Chaya Czernowin, Algae
Elizabeth Keusch, Brian Church, Stephen Drury
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
7 p.m.
$15, seniors $12, college students $5; free for members and children 7-17
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American Repertory Theater
Matthew Aucoin, Crossing
Rod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer Zetlan, A Far Cry
Citi Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$25-$110
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So Percussion
Works by John Cage, Steve Reich, Bryce Dessner, and So Percussion/Matmos
Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$25, members $20, premium seating $30, members $25
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American Repertory Theater
Matthew Aucoin, Crossing
Rod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer Zetlan, A Far Cry
Citi Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$25-$110
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Boston Choral Ensemble
John Tavener, Song for Athene; selections from Ex Maria Virgine; Balint Karosi, Song of the Wandering Aengus (world premiere); plus works by John Taverner
First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden St, Cambridge
8 p.m.
$10-$20
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Times Two
Jason Treuting + Aaron Staebell + Lisa Dowling (Kills to Kisses) + Mike Avitable
The Record Company, 960 Massachusetts Ave., Boston
7:30 p.m.
$15 suggested donation
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Boston Choral Ensemble
John Tavener, Song for Athene; selections from Ex Maria Virgine; Balint Karosi, Song of the Wandering Aengus; plus works by John Taverner
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washington St., Boston
4 p.m.
$15 suggested donation
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Pole with MFO + Lucy Lewis
Presented by Non-Event and Goethe-Institut Boston
Exploratory techno and video art
Le Laboratoire, 650 East Kendall St., Cambridge
8 p.m.
$15, members and students $10; advance $12.50, members and students $8
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Morgan Packard
Presented by Non-Event
Electroacoustic compositions
Café Fixe, 1642 Beacon St., Brookline
8 p.m.
$5
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Boston Choral Ensemble
John Tavener, Song for Athene; selections from Ex Maria Virgine; Balint Karosi, Song of the Wandering Aengus; plus works by John Taverner
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, 1400 Washington St., Boston
12 p.m.
$20 suggested donation
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Boston Trio
Sally Beamish, The Seafarer; plus music by Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy (arr. Sally Beamish)
Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St., Rockport
8 p.m.
$45-$65
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
John Cage, Etudes Australes Book I; Bernd Alois Zimmermann; Sonata for solo cello; György Kurtág, Signs, Games and Messages
Stephen Drury, piano; David Russell, cello; Gabriella Diaz, violin
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
SICPP Fellows
Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
Nicholas Vines, Dysart's Changelings; Rand Steiger, Elliott's Instruments; Jeffrey Mumford, through the filtering dawn of spreading daybright; Christian Wolff, Moderate (Stefan Wolpe)
Callithumpian Consort
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
All-percussion concert
Williams Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
Brian Griffeath-Loeb, Recomposition No. 4 Intermedio alla Ciaccona (Brian Ferneyhough); Chaya Czernowin, Dam Sheon Hachol (the hour glass bleeds still); Paul Elwood, The Inevitable Descent of Heaven; Rand Steiger: awhirl; Jeff Herriott, Mercury Weaves the Shifting Lattice
Mark Menzies, violin; Corey Hamm, piano; Stuart Gerber, Scott Deal, percussion; Callithumpian Consort
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Will Guthrie + Asher Tuil
Presented by Non-Event and Washington Street Music
Improvised percussion and electroacoustic composition
Washington Street Arts, 321D Washington St., Somerville
8 p.m.
$10-$15
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
SICPP Fellows
Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
Rand Steiger, Coalescence; Template II (world premiere); Alvin Lucier, ICEcles; Tristan Murail, Lachrymae; Claude Vivier, Pièce pour violon et clarinette
Mark Menzies, Gabriela Díaz, violin; Rane Moore, clarinet; Stephen Drury, piano; Callithumpian Consort
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Handel and Haydn Society
Gabriela Lena Frank, My Angel, His Name is Freedom (world premiere); Arvo Pärt, The Deer’s Cry; James MacMillan, O Radiant Dawn; plus works by George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Johann Sebastian Bach
Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston
8 p.m.
$19-$52
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Odyssey Opera
Thomas Adès, Powder Her Face
Boston Conservatory, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston
7:30 p.m.
$20-$100
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
SICPP Fellows
Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nasenfluegeltanz; Galina Ustvolskaya: Composition #1 "Dona Nobis Pacem"; John Mallia, Husk, with aura (premiere); Jeff Herriott, At the Whim of a Current; Georges Aperghis, Sept Crimes de l'amour
Stuart Gerber, Scott Deal, percussion; Callithumpian Consort
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Odyssey Opera
Thomas Adès, Powder Her Face
Boston Conservatory, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston
7:30 p.m.
$20-$100
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
SICPP Fellows
Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
New works by SICPP Electronic Workshop fellows
Pierce Hall, New England Conservatory, 241 St. Botolph St. Boston
4 p.m.
Free admission
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
Alvin Lucier, Nothing Is Real; Karlheinz Stockhausen, Refrain; Ronn Yedidia, Ether; Howard Bashaw, The Dreaded Lyres of Sirenum Scopuli, and Checkered Present; Jocelyn Morlock, Corybantic
Stephen Drury, Corey Hamm, piano; Yukiko Takagi, piano, celesta; Stuart Gerber, vibraphone
Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
8 p.m.
Free admission
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Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, Pavane Variée; Variations on a Theme of Paganini; plus music by John Field, Claude Debussy, and Franz Schubert
Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St., Rockport
8 p.m.
$49-$78
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Odyssey Opera
Thomas Adès, Powder Her Face
Boston Conservatory, 31 Hemenway Street, Boston
7:30 p.m.
$20-$100
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Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP)
The 2015 SICPP Iditarod: hours and hours of new music
Works by composer-in-residence Rand Steiger, Louis Andriessen, John Cage, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss, György Kurtág, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Giacinto Scelsi, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nicholas Vines, Christian Wolff, John Zorn, and composers enrolled in SICPP's New Works Program
Brown Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston
4 p.m. until whenever
Free admission
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Make Music Boston
All over town
All day long
Free of charge
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Matthew Aucoin and Friends
Matthew Aucoin, Dual; Celan Fragments; Celan Songs; Poem for Violin; Three Êtudes; The Orphic Moment
Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St., Rockport
7:30 p.m.
$19-$34
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Glenn Jones with Matt Azevedo + Jesse Collins
Presented by Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
American Primitive guitar and acoustic-feedback compositions
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St., Boston
7 p.m.
$15, members and students $10
RSVP at [email protected] or 617-277-0065
Limited parking
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Playlist.

Yes - Piazza della Riforma, Lugano, Switzerland, July 8, 2004 (YouTube)

Yes - Boston Garden, Boston, MA, June 19, 1979 (audience recording < YouTube)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 - Berlin Philharmonic/Günter Wand (RCA Red Seal)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 - New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classical)

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 - Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Bruno Walter (Sony Classical)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 3 - Norma Procter, Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra/Jascha Horenstein (Unicorn)

Sarah Kirkland Snider - Unremembered - Shara Worden, DM Stith, Padma Newsome, Unremembered Orchestra/Edwin Outwater (New Amsterdam; due July 31)

Playlist.

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, Vol. 8 (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp)

Jonathan Marmor - Animals Out of Place (self-released < Bandcamp)
(Cattle in the Woods - Johnny Chang, Joe Drew, Quentin Tolimieri, Devin Maxwell, James Moore, Travis Just; Animal Play - Mimitabu; Penguin Atlas of African History - Ensemble Dedalus; Monitor)

Anton Bruckner  - Symphony No. 8 - Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert Karajan (EMI Classics)

Giacomo Puccini - La bohème - Diego Torre, Vasilij Ladjuk, Marita Sølberg, Jennifer Rowley, Giovanni Battista Parodi, Espen Langvik, Svein Erik Sagbråten, Norwegian National Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Eivind Gullberg Jensen; dir. Stefan Herheim (Electric Picture)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni - Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Malin Byström, Véronique Gens, Elizabeth Watts, Antonio Poli, Dawid Kimberg, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Nicola Luisotti; dir. Kasper Holten (Opus Arte)

U2 - Achtung Baby (Island)

Steve Lacy Four - Morning Joy…Paris Live (hatOLOGY)

Brian Eno - Another Green World (Virgin)

Brian Eno - Discreet Music (Virgin)

Robert Schumann - Violin Concerto in D minor - Isabelle Faust, Freiburger Barockorchester/Pablo Heras-Casado; Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor - Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexander Melnikov (Harmonia Mundi)

Cradle of Filth - Hammer of the Witches (Nuclear Blast; due July 10)

Brian Eno - My Squelchy Life (Opal)

Yes - Boston Garden, Boston, MA, Aug. 30, 1978 (audience recording)

King Crimson - The Savoy, New York, NY, Nov. 5, 1981 (DGMLive)

Kronos Quartet - Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music by Terry Riley (Nonesuch; due June 16)
(Terry Riley - Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector; One Earth, One People, One Love from Sun Rings; Cry of a Lady; G Song; Lacrymosa - Remembering Kevin; Cadenza on the Night Plain)

Even when looking back, Jack DeJohnette forges ahead

Jack DeJohnette (center) and Made in Chicago, by Wes Orshoski/ECM Records

Even when looking back, Jack DeJohnette forges ahead
Boston Globe
May 17, 2015

For the featured jazz story in today's Summer Arts Preview issue of the Boston Globe, a brief but event-filled article about jazz drummer, bandleader, and composer Jack DeJohnette, who brings his legend-studded quintet Made in Chicago – saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, and bassist Larry Gray – to the Newport Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 1.

In a quick yet generous conversation, we talked about Chicago and the seeds of the AACM, which DeJohnette helped to plant; his crucial work alongside Miles Davis, the 60th anniversary of whose Newport debut is being celebrated in this year's festival as well as a terrific 4CD box set due in July; and the band that he really wants to talk about, his trio with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and electric-bass player Matthew Garrison, with whom he'll be recording and touring this fall.

It's always tricky to get to interview longtime heroes, because the temptation to lapse into fawning is great. But there is no question at all that DeJohnette is among the most important figures in my personal development, starting with my "what the hell was that?" response to "Journey to the Twin Planet," a track from his ECM album Special Edition, which I heard in 1980 on one of the last releases in the enlightened and enlightening Warner Bros. "Loss Leaders" double-LP sampler series: the ECM-centric volume Music with 58 Musicians, Volume One, a set that changed my world in manifold ways. (At left, the ad through which the set could be ordered, which I'd have seen in Rolling Stone.)

A few years later, fairly freshly into my training as a percussionist, but still in the throes of a jazz-drumming obsession that started when Peter Criss proclaimed that Gene Krupa was among his foremost influences and teachers, I received as a birthday gift a copy of Tin Can Alley, the second ECM LP by Special Edition. The dear friend who bought it for me didn't know anything about the record or its makers; she'd simply asked for a strong example of modern jazz drumming at a local record store, and somehow had encountered a salesperson wise enough to select this album. I wore it out then, and the music still holds up.

Time passed, players moved on from Special Edition, and ultimately the group parted from ECM, signed away by MCA to help that corporation relaunch the fabled Impulse! label in 1987. Irresistible Forces, recorded with a lineup that included young-blood saxophonists Greg Osby and Gary Thomas, veteran guitarist Mick Goodrick, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and special guest percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, was slicker and smoother than any of the Special Edition recordings that preceded it. But it was still a stellar example of DeJohnette's vital drumming, perceptive knack for assembling a band, and enviable skill for composing memorable tunes. (This set revisited one of DeJohnette's all-time best tunes, "Silver Hollow," and added a few new ones to the stack; the newfangled CD version added "Third World Anthem" as a bonus track.)

It would have been late in 1987, or possibly early in 1988, that I finally got to see Jack DeJohnette play live for the first time, when I drove from San Antonio to Fort Worth to catch the Irresistible Forces lineup of Special Edition (minus Vasconcelos) at Caravan of Dreams. At this distance, I recall the playing as having been superb, DeJohnette's presence as titanic, and his generosity in granting a fleeting personal audience to a starstruck, tongue-tied admirer above and beyond the call of duty.

And now, almost 30 years later, it's nice to have had a chance, once the formal interview had concluded, simply to thank DeJohnette for the potent and meaningful jolt of his early work.

Playlist.

John Luther Adams - Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing - Apollo Chamber Orchestra/JoAnn Falletta (New World)

King Crimson - Painters Mill Theatre, Owings Mills, MD, Nov. 4, 1981 (DGMLive)

Grisha Shakhnes - All this trouble for nothing (Glistening Examples)

Martin Scherzinger - African Math - Tom Rosenkranz, Chris Gross, Jen Choi (New Focus)

Susan Alcorn - Soledad (Relative Pitch)

Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4 (Columbia Legacy; due July 17)

Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (Sanctuary)

Marillion - Fugazi (Sanctuary)

The Bad Plus Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch; due May 26)

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (Sanctuary)

Marillion - Clutching at Straws (Sanctuary)

Jack DeJohnette - Made in Chicago (ECM)

Yes - Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two, CDs 1-4 (Rhino; due May 19)

Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit (Asian Man)

Marillion - Seasons End (Sanctuary)

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Kscope)

David Torn soars through 'only sky' at Regattabar

David Torn, by Wes Orshoski/ECM Records

David Torn soars through 'only sky' at Regattabar
Boston Globe
May 12, 2015

Scanning social media recently, Torn came across a journalist who was crowd-sourcing questions to ask him in an upcoming interview. A common reply: Ask what he’s been doing since “Cloud About Mercury.” That’s Torn’s most famous album, sure, but it came out in 1987.

I'm reasonably certain that I heard David Torn on the two Everyman Band LPs that ECM released before Cloud About Mercury arrived in 1987, but what an impact that record made on me. How could it not? Mark Isham played stellar trumpet, and the rhythm section was the then-current King Crimson tandem of Tony Levin on Chapman stick and bass, and Bill Bruford on electronic and acoustic percussion. Over it all, Torn's guitar dipped and soared, gliding like some proud bird of prey. The album holds up for me even now, and led to further adventures by three-quarters of the band - joined by Chris Botti on trumpet - as Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (B.L.U.E.).

Torn's done quite a lot since. But instead of continuing to build, his renown took something of a dip. Maybe part of it was that he signed to Windham Hill when that label, formerly the iconic stronghold of acoustic New Age, was exploring other routes; surely part of it was a health crisis that kept Torn out of the spotlight for a time. But as he indicated in this interview, he kept extremely busy with sideman and soundtrack work; you've quite likely heard him on film, on television, in video games, on singles by John Legend, and on albums by David Bowie.

In 2007, Torn came back to ECM with Prezens, a disc that found him working with saxophonist Tim Berne, keyboardist Craig Taborn, and drummer Tom Rainey - collectively, the trio Hard Cell, whose most recent recordings for other labels Torn had produced.

Now Torn has a new CD out: only sky, a completely improvised solo album that showcases his knack for fashioning moody atmospheres with guitar, oud, loops, and pedals. It's a quiet stunner, and to celebrate its arrival, he's touring solo for the first time in around 20 (!) years. On Wednesday night (May 13), he'll be playing sounds consistent with the album - but not identical, mind - at Regattabar in Cambridge.

Two videos here: first, rare footage from 1987 of the Cloud About Mercury band, with the late, lamented bassist Mick Karn filling in for Tony Levin, and second, a recent TEDxCalTech lecture/concert by Torn that demonstrates the kind of magic he works on only sky.

Playlist.

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye (Tzadik)

Kansas - Power (MCA)

Kansas - In the Spirit of Things (MCA)

King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum (DGM)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 14: Academy of Music, New York, NY 3/26/72 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks 2015 Bonus Disc (Grateful Dead/Rhino)

"The President's Own" United States Marine Band - From the Keyboard (Altissimo!)
(Johann Sebastian Bach/Ryan Nowlin - Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565); David Rakowski - Sibling Revelry; Sergei Rachmaninoff/Paul Lavender - Lento Assai from Symphonic Dances; Claude Debussy/Merlin Patterson - The Engulfed Cathedral; Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel/Paul Lavender - Pictures at an Exhibition)

Lawrence English - The Peregrine (Room 40)

Richard Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde - Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra/Matthew Aucoin (www.matthewaucoin.com)

Ryley Walker - Primrose Green (Dead Oceans)

King Crimson - Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 1981 (DGMLive)

Paola Prestini - Labyrinth - Cornelius Dufallo, Maya Beiser (VisionIntoArt)

Bryce Dessner - Music for Wood and Strings - So Percussion (Brassland; due May 19)

ZOFO - ZOFO Plays Terry Riley (Sono Luminus)
(Terry Riley - Etude from the Old Country; Jaztine; Tango Doble Ladiado; Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight; Simone's Lullaby; G Song; Praying Mantis Rag; Waltz for Charismas; Cinco de Mayo)

Van der Graaf Generator - After the Flood: Van der Graaf Generator at the BBC 1968-1977 (Virgin)

Daniel T. Lewis - Radiant Decay - unidentified percussion septet (Soundcloud)

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians - Ensemble Signal (Harmonia Mundi; due May 12)

John Adams - Scheherazade.2 - Leila Josefowicz, New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (New York Philharmonic broadcast)

After 20 years, Keith Lockhart keeping the Pops youthful

Keith Lockhart, by Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe

"After 20 years, Keith Lockhart keeping the Pops youthful"
Boston Globe
May 5, 2015

My front-page story about Keith Lockhart and his eventful journey to the Boston Pops, with which institution he celebrates his 20th anniversary in a spring season that starts tonight (May 6) with a swanky concert featuring Bernadette Peters.

My record for hitting the front page of the Globe with BSO-engaged conductors remains perfect, since my first A-1 placement as a writer, published last September and evidently never posted on this blog, was a breezy snapshot of Andris Nelsons arriving to commence his tour of duty.

Hopefully, I won't have cause to extend this particular streak any time soon.

Slayer at the Sinclair, April 29, 2015

Slayer, by Benjamin Stas/Boston Globe

Slayer at the Sinclair, April 29, 2015
Boston Globe
May 2, 2015