Sō Percussion and guests bring a vibrant and multivalent performance to BAM

Par Joseph Pfender, 28 décembre 2012

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Critique faite à BAM: Harvey Theater, New York, le 22 décembre 2012

Sō Percussion, Where (we) live

Sō Percussion, Percussions

Kurt Gottschalk, 4th February

If Sō Percussion isn’t precisely a pop band, they’ve certainly learned how to please a crowd, even while, at times, challenging expectations.

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Happy 80th Birthday, Steve Reich!

Jacob Slattery, 1st November

Steve Reich turned 80 last month, and New Yorkers finally pencilled him, between the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the daunting presidential election, for big birthday bash at Carnegie Hall.

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Man Forever and Sō Percussion collaborate at the Met Museum

Rebecca Lentjes, 8th June

On Thursday night, I left a concert longing for a tranquilizer, but at Saturday night’s Man Forever/Sō Percussion concert, I began wishing for sedatives about three minutes into the first set. Before the performance, the audience sat entranced by a subtle humming drifting through the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Not an outrageous start to Nico Muhly's A Scream and an Outrage weekend at the Barbican

Paul Kilbey, 10th May

Nico Muhly describes A Scream and an Outrage, the weekend of events he curated at the Barbican this weekend, as like a dinner party, “a gathering of friends and family new and old; loosely organised”.

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L’Ensemble Artifices fait résonner Biber au Printemps des Arts

Manon Decroix, 21st March

Magnifiquement recréée par Alice Julien-Laferrière et son ensemble, la musique de Biber est apparue dans toute son originalité : vivante, mouvante, presque organique, respirant à travers ses tensions et ses passions.

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Chailly, Kantorow et la Scala vers la flamme à la Philharmonie

Pierre Michel, 21st March

La formation italienne et le pianiste français ont fait étalage de leur habileté dans un programme intégralement russe.

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Joseph Pfender

Joseph Pfender, a PhD student in musicology at NYU, has active research interests in electroacoustic and multimedia performance, perceptual agency, music and folklore, and theorizing orchestration. He has presented work in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, and in Athens, Greece.