Night After Night

Playlist (Poetry in every line).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Bahauddin Dagar - Ragas Bihag & Ragvardhani - Berlin February 19th 2023 (Sacred Realism; 2023)

Bahauddin Dagar - Ahir Bhairav: Marghazi 2019 (Country & Eastern; 2020)

l a d y y b i r d d (Gina Izzo) - Tomorrow’s Yesterday (Innova; 2023)

Adam Swayne - 9/11: 20 Memorials on the twentieth anniversary of September 11th (Coviello Contemporary; 2021)

Karen Walwyn - Reflections on 9/11: III. "Anguish"; VI. "Burial"; Henry Cowell - Three Irish Legends: I. "The Tides of Manaunaun"; Fabric; Aeolian Harp; Kevin Malone - Sudden Memorials; Scott Joplin - Solace; David del Tredici - Gotham Glory: III. "Missing Towers"

Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini - Haydn 2023, Vol. 14: "L'Impériale" (Alpha; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 53 in D; Symphony No. 54 in G; Symphony No. 33 in C; Sinfonia in D, Hob.IA:7: Allegro con spirit0

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1877 version) - Bruckner Orchester Linz/Markus Poschner (Capriccio; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Nick Norton - Music for Sunsets (people places records; due Sept. 15, 2023)

King Crimson - Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, June 19, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Mark Reboul/Roberta Piket/Billy Mintz - Seven pieces / about an hour / saxophone, piano, drums (ESP-Disk’; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry - Our Daily Bread (ECM; 2023)

Lisa Bella Donna - Electronic Voyages (Behind the Sky; 2023)

Kory Reeder - Texas: Vol. II (self-released; 2023)

On a Clear Day - Alaina Clarice; Viola Solo: Black and Grey - Kathy Crabtree; Miya Ando - Alaina Clarice; this is a day that yawns like a caesura - Conner Simmons; Encore/Eulogy - Sebastian Stefanović

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year (American Dreams; 2023)

Tangerine Dream - Beacon Theater, New York, NY, June 28, 1986 (ROIO; 1986)

John Zorn/Jesse Harris - Songs for Petra (Tzadik; 2021)

Ed Herrmann - Water Ways (Rural Situationism; 2023)

Prairiewolf - Paradise Found Records, Boulder, CO, July 1, 2023 (self-released; 2023)

Tarotplane - Murmuration (NPM; 2023)

Quicksails - Surface (Hausu Mountain; due Oct. 27, 2023)

MrDougDoug - SOS Forks AI REM II (Hausu Mountain; due Sept. 22, 2023)

Mukqs - Stonewasher (Hausu Mountain; due Sept. 22, 2023)

George Walker - Sinfonia No. 2 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; 2023)

Playlist (Nodding out to rising bliss).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

John Zorn - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Tzadik; due Dec. 2023)

Johann Sebastian Bach - The French Suites - Mahan Esfahani (Hyperion; due Oct. 6, 2023)

Arovane - Seismograf (Dauw; 2023)

Kinan Azmeh & Brooklyn Rider - Starlighter (In a Circle; due Sept. 8, 2023)

Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (Northern Spy; due Sept. 29, 2023)

Cenk Ergün - Sonare & Celare - JACK Quartet (New Focus; 2020)

Keith Rowe/Gerard Lebik - Dry Mountain - Johnny Chang, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Bryan Eubanks, Kurt Liedwart, Xavier Lopez, Mike Majkowski, Emilio Gordoa (Inexhaustible Editions; 2023)

Phish - Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, Aug. 5, 2023 (LivePhish; 2023)

Clara Iannotta - Earthing - JACK Quartet (Wergo; 2020)

Dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii); You crawl over seas of granite; A Failed Entertainment; Earthing – dead wasps (obituary)

Léo Dupleix - Construire sur les ruines d’un passé encore fumant - Les Certitudes (Discreet Editions; due Sept. 1, 2023)

Vines - Birthday Party (self-released; 2023)

Nico Muhly - David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away) (Bedroom Community; due Sept. 8, 2023)

John Zorn/Jesse Harris - Songs for Petra (Tzadik; 2021)

Angelica Sanchez Tentet - Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 27, 2023)

Piotr Kurek - Smartwoods (Unsound; due Sept. 15, 2023)

Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current; 2023)

King Crimson - Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, April 26, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Pascal Le Boeuf - Ritual Being (SoundSpore; due Aug. 25, 2023)

SLUGish Ensemble - In Solitude (Slow & Steady; due Sept. 15, 2023)

Awadigin Pratt - STILLPOINT - Roomful of Teeth, A Far Cry (New Amsterdam; due Aug. 25, 2023)

Jessie Montgomery - Rounds; Paola Prestini - Code; Alvin Singleton - Time Past, Time Future; Pēteris Vasks - Castillo Interior; Tyshawn Sorey - Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices; Judd Greenstein - Still Point

Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet - Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt; due Nov. 10, 2023)

Garcia Peoples - Tubby’s, Kingston, NY, June 24, 2023 (NYCTaper; 2023)

Anna Webber - Shimmer Wince (Intakt; due Oct. 20, 2023)

Chitti Babu - The Art of Vina II (World Music Library; 1995)

Riot Ensemble - Vestige (Coviello Contemporary; 2023)

Ashkan Behzadi - az hoosh mi; Michaela Catranis - the ghosts in these trees; Alex Groves - Three Forms; Elisabeth Lutyens - Requiescat; Naomi Pinnock - Vestige; Enno Poppe - Trauben; Peter Wilson - String Trio

Sarah Saviet - Spun (Coviello Contemporary; 2023)

Liza Lim - The Su Song Star Map; Lisa Streich - Falter; Evan Johnson - Wolke über Bäumen; Arne Gieshoff - spun; Lawrence Dunn - Habitual

Playlist (Now comes a chance to find ourselves).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 6 in A - Staatskapelle Dresden/Eugen Jochum (Warner Classics; 1981)

King Crimson - Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI, April 26, 1974 (DGMLive; 2023)

Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (Metal Blade; 2023)

Immolation - Acts of God (Nuclear Blast; 2022)

Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media; 2023)

Castrator - Defiled in Oblivion (Dark Descent; 2022)

Thelonious Monk Quartet/Nonet - Liederhalle Mainz, Germany, Nov. 8, 1967 (Lantower; 2022)

Ornette Coleman Quartet - Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot, October 1971 (Lantower; 2022)

fibril - the rot (Debacle; 2023)

claire rousay & more eaze - Never Stop Texting Me (Orange Milk; 2022)

Nick Zanca - Cacerolazo (Full Spectrum; 2021)

Alan Courtis & David Grubbs - Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves (Husky Pants; due Sept. 8, 2023)

---__--___ - The Heart Pumps Kool-Aid (Orange Milk; 2021)

Asemix - Asemix (Warm Winters Ltd.; 2021)

Asemix - Untitled (self-released; 2020)

George Walker - Sinfonia No. 3 - National Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (National Symphony Orchestra; 2023)

Madhuvanti Pal - The Holy Mother (Sublime Frequencies; 2023)

Helmut Lachenmann - Complete String Quartets - JACK Quartet (Mode; 2014)

Opeth - Damnation (Music for Nations; 2003)

R.E.M. - "REM IS GOOD" (Luke O'Neil Spotify playlist; 2023)

Bob Dylan - More Live Fragments: Time Out of Mind Onstage 2008-2021 (ROIO compilation; 2023)

Annika Socolofsky - I Tell You Me - Annika Socolofsky, ~Nois, Phong Tran, Darian Donovan Thomas, No Plexus (Carrier; due Sept. 8, 2023)

Thomas Buckner - Spontaneous Musical Invention: Thomas Buckner Sings Robert Ashley (Recital; 2023)

Les Certitudes (Juliette Adam, Félicie Bazelaire, Léo Dupleix) - live at 26 chaises (Soundcloud; 2022)

Ellen Arkbro - Sounds while waiting (self-released; 2021)

Sarah Davachi - Cantus Figures Larus (Late Music; 2021)

Gothamist: Jonathon Heyward interview, Aug. 3, 2023.

Jonathon Heyward (Photograph: Laura Thiesbrummel)

"Conductor Jonathon Heyward is poised to make history in NYC and Baltimore"
Gothamist, Aug. 3, 2023

My final contribution to Gothamist is this extended version of an interview with conductor Jonathon Heyward – the new music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the newly announced music director of whatever the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will be called when it returns next summer – which I scripted and Tiffany Hanssen conducted. The slightly shorter version of the interview that aired on WNYC last weekend is embedded in this story, too.

Heyward is conducting the orchestra on Friday and Saturday nights, Aug. 4 and 5, at David Geffen Hall; details here.