Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Modern classical and avant garde concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries forms the primary focus of this blog. It is hoped that through the discussions a picture will emerge of modern music, its heritage, and what it means for us.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Orlando Jacinto Garcia, String Quartets 1-3, Amernet String Quartet

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Cuban-American composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia writes music that aims to suspend time. This according to the liner notes on the recent off...

Friday, March 26, 2021

James Dashow, Songs from a Spiral Tree, The Vocal Works, High Modern Classics

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Maybe like me you do not know a lot about composer James Dashow. The current two-CD set will help set you straight.. It is titled Songs fr...

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Sustain, Vol. 2: Solo Piano and Chamber Works, A Modern Anthology

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The more disparate and numerous the musical items an anthology contains, the harder it is to write about it in some ways. Yet if the music s...

Monday, March 22, 2021

Sid Richardson, Borne by a Wind

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Some composers create music as they might breathe. The music follows upon itself in a natural flow, like conversation idealized into a mus...

Thursday, March 18, 2021

James Caldwell, Pocket Music, Concrete Miniatures 1998-2020

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Early Electronic and Musique Concrete flourished of course in part by the complexity and novelty of the aural colors the artists painstaki...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Robert Moran, Buddha Goes to Bayreuth

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I last posted on the music of Robert Moran in 2011, a review of his Trinity Requiem for 9-11 victims (type his name in the search box for...

Monday, March 15, 2021

Robert Honstein, Middle Ground, Music for Solo Violin and Electronics, Kate Stenberg

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The music of Robert Honstein has not crossed my listening path all that much (but I've appreciated what I've heard on a couple of ...

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Grego Applegate Edwards: Cape May, New Jersey, United States; I am a life-long writer, musician, composer and editor. I wrote for Cadence for many years, a periodical covering jazz and improv music. My combined Blogspot blogs (as listed in the links) now cover well over 3,000 recordings in review. It's been a labor of love. The music is chosen because I like it, for the most part, so you won't find a great deal of nastiness here. I have no affiliations and gain nothing from liking what I do, so that makes me somewhat impartial. I do happen to like a set of certain musics done well, so it's not everything released that gets coverage on these blogs. I went to music and higher education schools and got degrees. It changed my life and gave me the ability to think and write better. I've studied with master musicians, too. The benefits I gained from them are invaluable. I appreciate my readers. You are why I write these reviews. I hope the joy of music enriches your life like it does mine. Thank you. And thank you to all the artists that make it possible.

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