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17 April 2010, Article
"His music has a lilting grace that makes listeners want to join in, dancing or playing along."
Wind quintet bucks norm to great success By Ruth Bingham Special to The Honolulu Advertiser, March 15, 2010   "It's our MySpace concert," Jonathan Parrish joked, explaining that the Spring Wind Quintet of Chamber Music Hawaii used social networking to find three of the four pieces on their program — all composed within the past 20 years: "We're bringing you some of that old 20th-century music." In classical music concerts, contemporary works are usually rationed, ...
17 April 2010, Article
"A fine composer not afraid of accessibility"
Oregon Bach Festival spotlight shines on younger composers July 11, 2002 By Tom Manoff From  The Register-Guard AMONG ITS MANY distinctions, the Oregon Bach Festival is the only Eugene arts organization that's made a real commitment to contemporary composers. Krzysztof Penderecki, Ärvo Pärt, Osvaldo Golijov and Tan Dun are among the world's most prominent living composers who have been heard here, several of them inspired by Helmuth Rilling to create Bach-struck works. J.S. Bach as a ...
16 April 2010, Article
"You will enjoy this work immensely."
In this year’s (2008) concert series the Langroise Trio gave us mostly works of the Classical period — Brahms and Hummel Piano Quartets , the complete Beethoven String Trios , even a Herzogenberg Trio . for their fourth CD 1 (see review of an earlier release) they are back, by popular request, with their more frequently heard modern music repertoire (see a concert review including the Bartholomew and Earnest works on this release).  More than half the music presented on this disk was written in the ...