Click HERE to read the review of the NEXUS solo concert on March 2, 2012 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
Click HERE to read the review of the NEXUS solo concert on March 2, 2012 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
Click HERE to read the review of NEXUS’ performance of “From me flows what you call Time” with the Austin Symphony Orchestra.
Click HERE to read about NEXUS’ performance with conductor Gillian MacKay and the University of Toronto Winds on March 5, 2011.
MUSIC: CONCERT REVIEW
Reducing an entire orchestra to two pianos (and it works!)
ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Here is a lovely review by Gene Tyranny that Bob Becker has discovered on the Midomi site (visit it here to read the original). The review is undated, but provides a most sensitive description of NEXUS’ signature work, Toru Takemitsu’s From me flows what …
NEXUS is featured in the July 2010 issue of “Percussive Notes”. The article by Daniel R. Smithiger. Click HERE to view a PDF file of that article.
Click here to read the Review in the LaCrosse Tribune - July 7, 2010.
Read the review here.
Here is another peek into the NEXUS archives, this time an article by Allan Kozinn in the New York Times of May 3, 1998. The article was headlined “Touring Percussionists Who Aren’t Really Offbeat”, and here are some highlights from Mr Kozinn’s piece:
“ONE might have thought that five percussionists who wanted …
from Wholenote Magazine
Among contemporary music fans, NEXUS has long been considered one of the world’s premiere percussion ensembles - and they have been making music of the percussive persuasion for an astonishing 37 years.
I think I just may be dating myself when relating that …
“one of the peak experiences of my musical life…At the sudden ending…ecstatic whoops and cheers forced three curtain calls… It was a performance for the ages.” - Brett Campbell, San Francisco Classical Voice
“Ojai felt, for that hour, like holy ground.” - Mark Swed, L. A. Times music critic
“I’m …
Out West Arts blogspot
Ojai Day 2
June 11, 2007
Sometimes I wonder why I go to the Ojai festival. I hate sitting outdoors in the sun, or even worse, freezing at night. Nor is sitting on a hard bench for up to 6 hours a day my idea of fun. (Those cushions help but let’s not …
Kansas City Star - February 19, 2007
The Kansas City Symphony’s percussion-themed program for this weekend looked ingenious and fun on paper. Haydn’s ‘Drum Roll’ Symphony with its opening timpani lick was paired with Stravinsky’s raucous ‘The Rite of Spring,’ and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s recent ‘Rituals’ for percussion and orchestra was sandwiched between.
On the plus side was …
