John Williams is a game changer. Early in his career he crossed the lines between music that was “art” and music that was “commercial,” and never looked back. He is one of the best known, most awarded and most successful composers in US history, and his name is inextricably connected to outstanding music for films. He has written scores for over 100 films, and his massive list of awards includes 51 Academy Award nominations and…
Following their recent cover story and interview, Blues Blast Magazine has announced Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for a 2018 Blues Blast Music Award for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year. This is the second major honor for Break The Chain as it was just recently announced as the winner of the 2018 Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album of the Year! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…
Blues Blast Magazine‘s May 31 issue features Doug MacLeod on the cover along with an extensive new interview by Don Wilcock! The first time Doug MacLeod performed “Break The Chain,” the title song from his latest album, was in Denmark. “I was doing a festival. I was in this room. There must have been about 300 people there, and they all stand up there in Denmark. And I mentioned the story of “Break The Chain.”…
We are very pleased to present our first release in a new series from the PaTRAM Institute. The music performed on this recording of Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language was written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by many to be the…
Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain recording has won the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year! This makes three years in-a-row that Doug MacLeod has won a Blues Music Award (Acoustic Artist of the Year 2017, 2016). Congratulations to Doug MacLeod, Jesse MacLeod, Jimi Bott, Denny Croy, and Oliver Brown! From Doug MacLeod “I was thrilled to hear the news that Break The Chain won The Blues Music Award for Acoustic Album Of…
15% off all in-stock titles Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain has won a 2018 Blues Music Award for best Acoustic Album of the Year! Doug MacLeod was also nominated for Best Acoustic Artist, and Break the Chain drummer Jimi Bott earned his 19th nomination! Jazz pianists Mike Garson and Dick Hyman are busy out on the road. Mike is touring with former Bowie bandmates with music of David Bowie while NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman…
Reference Recordings is pleased to announce a new series of recordings from the PaTRAM Institute – beginning with our May 18, 2018 release, Teach Me Thy Statutes, which features Orthodox choral music in the Slavonic language written by famed Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944). Teach me Thy Statutes is performed by the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, a highly professional group which is a collaboration of Russian and American singers. The male choir is considered by…
Sunday, April 29, at 6pm Pacific, Nadia Shpachenko will be performing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of the “Sundays Live” series which is broadcast in a live stream on the LACMA website! The concert will feature a performance of Tom Flaherty’s Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics, which was on her debut album, Woman at the New Piano. More Information Quotations and Homages Nadia Shpachenko’s latest Reference Recordings release…
May 3-8, 2018, Manfred Honeck will lead the New York Philharmonic in four performances featuring selections from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, and his arrangement of Dvořák’s Rusalka Fantasy! For more information, see the official press release on Broadway World, and for tickets, visit nyphil.org. Hear Manfred Honeck’s recording of the Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy on his Tchaikovsky/Dvořák recording with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Manfred Honeck Recordings on FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Reference Recordings congratulates Jerry Junkin on 25 years as the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Dallas Winds! Since 1990, Reference Recordings has partnered with The Dallas Winds (Dallas Wind Symphony) on 17 audiophile recordings (including 3 GRAMMY® nominees). On top of Jerry Junkin’s Dallas Winds recordings with Reference Recordings, he has also released two recordings conducting the University of Texas Wind Ensemble on RR. We are marking this exciting anniversary by offering all of…
April 4th at Cal Poly Pomona, Nadia Shpachenko performs a solo recital to officially release her new recording, Quotations & Homages! Concert Details on NadiaShpachenko.com Quotations & Homages features World Premiere recordings of works for solo piano, for piano and electronics, for speaking pianist, for piano with extended techniques, and collaborative works for 6 pianists (performed with RayKallay Duo, HOCKET and Genevieve Feiwen Lee) inspired by a variety of earlier composers and works. These fascinating…
Nadia Shpachenko will follow up her GRAMMY®-nominated Woman at the New Piano with a new release next month, and in the meantime, she is turning heads as part of the “People Inside Electronics” (PIE) series. Listen to her interview on KPFK (starts around the 59′ mark on the Thursday, March 8 Global Village program) See her interview about the PIE series and her upcoming release on NewClassic.LA See her perform a PIE preview at ArtNight…
L.A. Weekly interviewed pianist Mike Garson about his current “Celebrating Bowie” tour and his future plans to pay homage to the music of David Bowie: “Basically I just made this commitment to myself that 50 percent of my musical output moving forward would be his music,” Garson tells me by phone. He’s currently traveling with Celebrating Bowie, the 27-city tour with the departed icon’s former bandmates playing his works (at the Wiltern on Feb. 28).…
The January 2018 issue of Blues Music Magazine is out and available online, sporting a front cover, and five pages devoted Doug MacLeod and his Break The Chain recording: “A knock and a quick response: the green door of the home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. cracks open and bluesman Doug MacLeod pokes his head and shoulders out and into this sunny October afternoon, answering for his host, radio blues broadcaster Bill Wax.…
The Music Resource Group announced the Nominees in The 16th annual Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), and Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain is nominated for Blues Album of the Year! Winners will be announced March 31st at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. See the full list of nominees at IndependentMusicAwards.com and vote for Doug in the Fan selections! Break the Chain In this release, his third album for Reference…