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The Second Year of Pianomorphosis Posts

December 19, 2010 by Bruce Brubaker

December 17, 2009: Rattle

December 21, 2009: Early adopters

December 28, 2009: Change of venue

December 30, 2009: Screening

January 5, 2010: Drunk

January 11, 2010: Tract

January 25, 2010: Costly Imitation

February 1, 2010: Kindest Cuts

February 8, 2010: Rise

February 16, 2010: Forest

February 22, 2010: First Note

March 1, 2010: Scripture reading

March 8, 2010: Overwhelmed

March 16, 2010: Repertoire Inflation

March 23, 2010: Widescreen

March 29, 2010: “Poet, be seated at the piano”

April 5, 2010: Product and Act

April 19, 2010: Money changes everything

April 26, 2010: The Discreet Charm of the Musical Middle Class

May 10, 2010: Virtual Instrument

May 17, 2010: Clubbing

May 24, 2010: Next

June 1, 2010: Quick and Dead

June 14, 2010: Loopy

June 21, 2010: Declassified

June 28, 2010: Casualties

July 6, 2010: Faulty

July 19, 2010: No pedal

July 26, 2010: Two Rooms, NYC

August 2, 2010: What Would Yehudi Do?

August 16, 2010: Off the grid

August 23, 2010: Luigi Beethoven — postmodernist

September 7, 2010: “large capable hands”

September 13, 2010: Job

September 21, 2010: Scoreless

September 28, 2010: Police witness

October 13, 2010: Connoisseurship

October 18, 2010: Marshall Plan

November 3, 2010: Inégales

November 15, 2010: Day trading

November 22, 2010: Intertext

November 29, 2010: In the 1980s

December 6, 2010: “Of which vertu…”

December 12, 2010: Jacob Lateiner (1928-2010)

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Bruce Brubaker

Recordings like the new American piano music albums I make for ECM, InFiné, Bedroom Community, and Arabesque reach millions of listeners, and break through some old divisions of high culture/pop, or art/entertainment. My fans are listening to Billie Eilish, The Weeknd — even the occasional Mozart track! Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube are allowing music lovers to discover music they could not have found so easily before. Live performances begin to reflect what’s happening online. My performances occur in classical venues like the Philharmonie in Paris, the Barbican in London, at La Roque d’Anthéron, at festivals such as Barcelona’s Sónar and Nuits Sonores in Brussels, and such nightclubs as New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge. Read More…

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“Glassforms” with Max Cooper at Sónar

“Glass Etude” on YouTube

demi-cadratin review of Brubaker solo concert at La Roque d’Anthéron

“Classical music dead? Nico Muhly proves it isn’t” — The Telegraph‘s Lucy Jones on my Drones & Piano EP

Bachtrack review of Brubaker all-Glass concert

“Brubaker recital proves eclectic, hypnotic, and timeless” — Harlow Robinson’s Boston Globe review of my Jordan Hall recital

“Simulcast” with Francesco Tristano on Arte

Bruce Brubaker hosts 4 weeks of “Hammered!” on WQXR — “Something Borrowed,” “Drone,” “Portal,” “The Raw and the Cooked”

“Onstage, a grand piano and an iPod” — David Weininger’s story with video by Dina Rudick

“Bruce Brubaker on Breaking Down Boundaries” — extensive audio interview at PittsburghNewMusicNet.com

“Heavy on the Ivories” — Andrea Shea’s story for WBUR about Bruce Brubaker’s performances and recording of “The Time Curve Preludes” by William Duckworth

“Feeding Those Young and Curious Listeners” — Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times on the first anniversary of the Poisson Rouge

“The Jewel in the Fish” — Harry Rolnick on Bruce Brubaker at the Poisson Rouge

“The Post-Postmodern Pianist” — Damian Da Costa profiles Bruce Brubaker in The New York Observer

Bruce Brubaker questioned at NewYorkPianist.net

“Finding the keys to the heart of Jordan Hall” — Joan Anderman in the Boston Globe on the search for a new concert grand piano

“Hearing and Seeing” — Philip Glass speaks with Bruce Brubaker and Jon Magnussen, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study

Bruce Brubaker about Messiaen’s bird music, NPR, “Here and Now”

“I Hear America: Gunther Schuller at 80” — notes and programs for concert series, New England Conservatory, Harvard University, Boston Symphony Orchestra

“A Conversation That Never Occurred About the Irene Diamond Concert,” Juilliard Journal

Bruce Brubaker plays music by Alvin Curran at (le) Poisson Rouge

Bruce Brubaker

Recordings such the new American piano music albums I make for ECM, InFiné, and Arabesque reach many listeners, and seem to break through some old divisions of high culture/pop, or art/entertainment. My fans are listening to Cardi B, Childish Gambino, Ariana Grande — even the occasional Mozart track! Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube are allowing music lovers to discover music they could not have encountered so easily in the past. Live performances begin to reflect what’s happening online: this year I play at the International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron, traditional concert venues in Los Angeles, and Boston — as well as nightclubs in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Lyon, Geneva, and New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge.

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