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SF Chronicle Reviews The Poetry of Places
Critic Joshua Kosman reviews Nadia Shpachenko’s The Poetry of Places in the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook: “In ‘The Poetry of Places,’ the gifted and versatile pianist Nadia Shpachenko premieres a remarkable lineup of 10 new works… It’s a winningly loose concept, and the music that results covers a wonderfully diverse stylistic range, from the disruptive shifts of tone in Andrew Norman’s ‘Frank’s House’…to the psychedelic whizzing and swooshing of Lewis Spratlan’s ‘Bangladesh.’ In between come…