Slatkin: Berlioz Requiem on medici.tv. more ...

Hello! My first post here on Melkonian Music News - let's hope you like it ;) I'm a freelance session drummer based in and around London - I have such a hunger for discovering new music, admittedly it's often the drummer that gets me listening. For my first post I wanted to share a video of a band I discovered a few months back. They're called the Robert Glasper Experiment fronted by no other more ...

da Capo Brass (Luke Boudreault and Steve Sutton, trumpet; Mary Pritchett Boudreault, horn; Paul Pietrowski, trombone; Brent Harvey, tuba) accomplishes the pinnacle of unique expression and color only possible with the buttery tones of a closely knit brass quintet.  From the beginning is composed of great variety from the traditional fanfare of J.S. Bach, the playfulness of David Baldwin’s “Mus more ...

George Benjamin’s Written On Skin is brimming with darkness and an odd murkiness that infiltrates every scene, character, and interaction.  The lighting is in one moment stark and sanitary, and in the next moment, gloomy and foreboding.  The stage is divided into four rectangular segments; three segments set in the present day and one segment set in 12th-century Provence.  The angels (or demon more ...