by Matt Friedman | 30 Apr 2016 | Reviews
I had just paid for an armful of LPs at Iris Records, my local vinyl emporium in Jersey City’s Village. I was turning to leave when Steve, sitting behind the stacks of records crowding around the cash, stopped me. He pulled a record from the pile “This just came...
by Matt Friedman | 25 Apr 2016 | Podcasts
The soundtrack album for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) stimulated unprecedented interest in adventurous avant-garde music, and sold 500,000 copies within a year. Click play for the third episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. “Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the...
by Matt Friedman | 25 Apr 2016 | Playlists
Gyorgy Ligeti, Requiem, Hessian Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Michael Gielen LigetI: Requiem/Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures, WERGO – WER 60045-50 George Antheil, Ballet Mécanique, Ensemble Modern Fighting the Waves: Music of George Antheil, BMG...
by Matt Friedman | 17 Apr 2016 | Essays
Outrage flooded into the aisles of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on the night of 29 May 1913, and spilled into the streets of Paris’s 8e Arrondissement. The premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, a new ballet staged by Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes,...
by Matt Friedman | 11 Apr 2016 | Podcasts
Modernists in exile in America. From left to right: Violinist Rudolf Kolisch, conductor George Szell, Max Horkheimer, violinist Felix Khuner (squatting), Arnold Schönberg, Hanns Eisler, an unidentified person, and pianist Eduard Steuermann. Click play for the...
