George Rothman leading the Riverside Symphony, with Tim Fain on violin, on Wednesday, in their last program of the season By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Published: June 4, 2009 […] The performance Mr. Rothman drew from the Riverside Symphony was richly colored,…
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The New Yorker on Kernis and Fain with the Baltimore Symphony
Read the Full Review Musical Events, “Maestra,” The New Yorker, January 7, 2008, p. 78
Kernis Symphony in Waves release is “Disc of the Month”
Contemporary orchestral music recordings don’t get much better than this. Aaron Jay Kernis was lucky in that the music on which his current reputation rests (including Symphony in Waves) was recorded when it was new, by Argo. It deserved to…
“Exciting Listening” from Music From Copland House
Currier: On The Verge KIC-CD-77691: “Among the many impressive discs of contemporary American chamber music currently available, this one stands out. Exciting and committed music-making. It would be hard to imagine a better performance than this one. Performances are first-class.”…
Baltimore Sun on Concert Honoring Alsop’s Advocacy for New Music:
“Fain is quite the fiddler, as effortless in taming technical challenges as he is compelling in the way he shapes phrases organically and creates an extensive range of tone colors as he goes. Mesmerizing. -Baltimore Sun
Copland House Declared A National Historic Landmark
Cortlandt Manor, NY, October 11, 2008 – On the eve of its 10th Anniversary season, Copland House is proud to announce that Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has declared the restored, longtime New York home of iconic American composer…