Messiaen draws the very best from Christopher Taylor
Demanding 176-page score to “Vingt Regards sur L’enfant Jesus” is presented as an accessible modernist work
Faith, divinity and mathematical mysticism burst forth last night as pianist Christopher Taylor performed a bold, magisterial and reverent rendition of Olivier Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards Sur L’Enfant Jesus (Twenty Ways of Looking at [...]
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Concert Review: Pianist Christopher Taylor
Posted in Concerts Reviews on March 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Concert Review: Fred Hersch and Kurt Elling
Posted in Concerts Reviews on March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ode to Walt Whitman strikingly experimental yet pleasingly conventional
CHARLESTON – Pianist Fred Hersch has a reputation for challenging and evocative projects. But little can match the depth and profound power of his latest work, the musical recasting of “Leaves of Grass.”
With an ensemble of two brass, two reeds, cello, bass, percussion, piano and two [...]
