Tag: Spektral Quartet

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It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

While the Spektral Quartet set down their bows and strings last year, drawing the curtain on more than a decade of live performance, the violinists Clara Lyon and Theo Espy, violist Doyle Armbrust and cellist Russell Rolen still had three recording projects on a stately afterburn. First up on New Amsterdam Records, the quartet paste and bind with Julia...

A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick townhouse at 64th East 7th Street in bustling New York. Built in 1889 as the parsonage for St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, home to the Reverend George...