Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers: Serenade: The Love Album

by C. Michael Bailey
September 6, 2015

One of the creative aspects of music that stands to be lost with the continued atomization of the industry where the long-playing record album of compact disc gives way to the individual song as the commodity unit, is the art of programming a multi-piece recording. The vinyl record album and, more so, the compact disc, has always provided classical music a format with ample time to contain a given piece of music. The format offers plenty of time to capture ...

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers Nightclub Sounds Including Schubert

Source: Michael Ricci
February 5, 2009

Ever in search of new audiences to convert, classical music has lately beaten a path to the nightclub with increasing frequency, to varying results.

For many young, eclectic composers and performers whose work deals in amplification, electronics and pop-music borrowings, a chatty crowd and the clink of beer bottles is familiar territory. But those same ambient noises can play havoc with a more conventional performance, especially in music reliant on a delicate balance of acoustic instruments.

The violinist Anne Akiko ...
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