Mayr/ Morace/ Andres - L'accademia Di MusicaJohann Simon Mayr was among the most successful composers prior to Rossini, and while he was long remembered as Donizetti's teacher his excellent music is now gaining the recognition it deserves. L'accademia di musica is a single act farsa or comedy, it's narrative a variation on the familiar situation of an elderly rich man trying to seduce and marry his young maid and the complications and intrigues that ensue, including 'play within a play' and a

such as Jack Straw

" the bandleader said

In Maurice Ravel's time the competition included an elimination round (a fugue and a choral piece) followed by a cantata in the form of an operatic scena

" a down-on-his-luck folk singer in Bukowski's 1978 novel Women

attorney Barbara Hug (Marie Leuenberger) had made her young reputation in railing against the Swiss penal system

Dog's new album Birdie (October 27 on Lame-O Records) expands upon the framework Ewald built on Welcome and the recent EP Motorcycle

and the Liberty album "Golden Hits"

Putting his spin on the Band's 'Evangeline' with help from Freakwater's Janet Beveridge Bean and backed with 'Satin Sheets

Hindemith/ Amar Quartet - Complete String Quartets

DARK FUNERAL

Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews

reminiscent of the nihilistic moments in Abigail Meade's score to 'Full Metal Jacket' where the sonics resemble a slow churn of molten steel occasionally punctuated and pierced by crystalline shards