Tag: playfulness

‘Her playfulness is infectious’: meet the 12-year-old behind 2022’s most beguiling album | Music

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Gendel and Cytrynowicz at work in the studio.

Sam Gendel and Antonia Cytrynowicz are two of experimental pop music’s most unlikely creative partners. Gendel, 35, is the Los Angeles saxophonist who has lent his talents to records by Vampire Weekend, Maggie Rogers and […]

Meredith Monk with Bang on a Can All-Stars review – magnetic and precise playfulness | Classical music

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‘A composer and performer taking herself just seriously enough.’ (l to r) Allison Sniffin, Meredith Monk, Theo Bleckmann and Kate Giessinger

“I like to leave room for play and growth,” said Meredith Monk recently, talking about how the music she composes never really reaches a definitive, finished state – and there was plenty of play in […]