Archive for Ron Schepper
Textura Reviews Migration
Textura Magazine gives The University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Jerry Junkin’s Migration album a warm review: “Expertly helmed by Jerry Junkin, The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has been commissioning new music and performing world premieres for more than three decades. …Migration is very much characteristic of Schoenberg’s music and shows why he’s been twice named one of the most performed living composers by orchestras in the United States.… In [Corigliano’s] dazzling set-piece, Gunn glides…
Textura Reviews Teach Me Thy Statutes
Canada’s Textura magazine has a new review for PaTRAM’s Teach Me Thy Statutes recording: “The rich sonorities generated by the male voices makes for a stirring and oft-haunting result, and even a listener coming to the Russian monastic style of singing for the first time will in all likelihood be captivated by this collection of Orthodox sacred music. … Though the singers assembled for the recording came from three ensembles, a marked unity of purpose…
Textura Finds Joy in Quotations and Homages
Textura Magazine published a rave new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording: “Rare, not to mention refreshing, is the classical recording that balances seriousness with humour. Certainly one composer who embodies the principle is Tom Flaherty, whose two pieces bookend the release. Their origins bespeak a scholarly mind at work, but as homages they’re delightfully irreverent, flamboyant even… As irreverent as it might be to root a composition in material by The Velvet…