Review: Muti is back at the CSO and so is the drama — at the opera, on the silver screen and onstage “…Rota’s yo-yoing between operatic pathos and Sicilian folk music in “The Godfather” is the kind of expert dichotomy one finds in the Turkish bands of Beethoven 9’s finale, or the tragicomic interludes of […]
For the next few days, I’ll be at Lost Boy studio with Mat Lejeune making a record with some amazing musicians! Here’s a little information about what we’re up to. We’re excited to be presenting a performance of this project on Saturday, August 3rd at Constellation, and here is a Chicago Reader writeup about that […]
I’m absolutely thrilled to be playing in these concerts featuring the CSO x Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, with the wonderful conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. There’s quite the delightful accordion part in the Shostakovich Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, which has been great fun to work on (on a beautiful Beltuna accordion […]