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Wes Matthews

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Composer Wes Matthews is steadily gaining wider recognition for his work, with music praised for “passion and subtlety, marked by an arresting sincerity” (Lisa Bielawa) and “startling introspection, masterful development, and tremendous beauty…that effectively questions rather than declares and breathes as eloquently as it speaks” (Andrew Nogal, American Composers Forum/Minnesota Public Radio). Performances of his piece Terraces (“promising…moody…delicately threaded” [Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe]) by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Minnesota Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä, in addition to performances of his Chronicle for solo alto flute at the 2008 Bang on a Can Festival at MASS MoCA and his Saxophone Quartet No

Album

Dollshot

Label: Underwolf Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Galathea (Wedkind/Schoenberg); 02. The Trees (Matthews); 03. La reine de coeur (Careme/Poulenc); 04. The Cage, Maple Leaves, Evening (Ives); 05. Der Genugsame Liebhaber (Salus/Schoenberg); 06. Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen/Burke); 07. Fear of Clouds (N.Kaplan); 08. Lune d'Avril (Careme/Poulenc); 09. Postlude.

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News: Performance / Tour

Douglass Street Music Collective Presents Unicycles

Douglass Street Music Collective Presents Unicycles

On Thursday, March 4 at 9:00 p.m., Douglass Street Music Collective will present Unicycles, a relay-style series of solo performances by an ensemble cast of six up-and-coming Brooklyn improvisers. The cast, which collaborates in various other groups including Gleason's Twins, Dollshot, and Cuddle Magic, will assemble one fat B-52 of sonic pleasure, piece by piece. The ...


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