Cultural Attaché: New In Music this Week: April 17th
Will all the new jazz vinyl titles being released for Record Store Day tomorrow, it is not a big surprise that New In Music This Week: April 17th favors contemporary classical titles. Not exclusively, but primarily. You can find our selection of Record Store Day releases HERE.
CLASSICAL: LAMENTING EARTH – Nicholas Phan / Myra Huang / Jasper String Quartet – AVIE Records
“Fung’s Lamenting Earth had its world premiere with Phan in 2024. She set high school students’ climate-change poetry to music and the result is mesmerizing. The third of the four movements sets Claire Wahmanholm’s poem O. to music.
This 62-minute album would make a great concert. I hope Phan, Huang and Jasper String Quartet take it on the road. In the meantime, be moved by their lamentation for mother earth.”