Mobtown Modern, your purveyors of fine new music in Baltimore, is making mix tapes for each of our 6 concerts for the 2008-2009 season, serving up more tracks that you need to check out. In advance of each show, we’ll distribute a new mix with songs associated with the show’s theme. We’ve got the first […]
Hurd Audio reviews American Voices.
American Voices got a nice write-up in the current issue of the Saxophone Journal. Here are a couple choice quotes:
“In performing Piece in the Shape of a Square Brian Sacawa exhibits a strong vibrant sound on saxophone with phrasing and intensity that makes the piece come alive.”
And . . .
All the pieces on this American […]
I’m not sure how this one flew under my radar for so long, but back in September The Album (Erik Spangler’s pastlife laptops and attic instruments, to be exact) was featured on WNYC’s New Sounds with host John Schaefer. You can listen to the entire show on demand by clicking here. Our bit starts at […]
Well, 2008 is off to a grand start as The Album continues to garner some good press. Though my appeal for a recount is still being processed by the Academy, the CD review in the December issue of Gramophone Magazine, which occupies the better part of an entire page, more than makes up for the […]
Good Vibrato, the occasional blog of Ronen Givony’s forward-thinking Wordless Music Series, pairs paintings with all manner of music, including my recording of Piece in the Shape of a Square by Philip Glass. Check it out here.
I was extremely flattered to learn last week from my esteemed record company that American Voices is being considered for a Grammy nomination in two categories—Best Performance by a Soloist (without Orchestra) and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Keeril Makan’s Voice Within Voice. Voting members of the Academy have to cast their ballots by today. […]
This past July, I had the great honor of playing a concert on the Ocean Grove Summer Stars series with the phenomenal accordionist Lidia Kaminska and everyone’s favorite tech-blogging pianist Hugh Sung. We weren’t quite sure in the beginning how the unusual combination of instruments was going to work out, but I think it’s fair […]
American Voices continues to garner some good press. Here’s the latest review courtesy of All Music. And a nice little excerpt:
Brian Sacawa’s American Voices makes an excellent case for Sacawa’s skill as a player, but it also provides insight to the wide variety of options that composers are making available to artists of his caliber […]
American Voices is finally available on iTunes. Have at it.