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2021-02-24 09:38:29
Challenging and surprising: on 'arb', clarinet and bassoon duo, Zachary Good and Ben Roidl-Ward explore multiphonics
arb; Zachary Good, Ben Roidl-Ward; Carrier Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 February 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Recorded during lockdown last year, this disc from two Chicago-based instrumentalists explores the fascinating and insistent world of multiphonicsZachary Good and Ben Roidl-Ward are two young instrumentalists based in Chicago. Both are interested both in expanding the repertoire of their instruments (Good plays clarinets and Baroque recorders, Roidl-Ward plays the bassoon) and extending the possibilities of the instruments. During lockdown last year, they recorded an album in their Chicago apartment. arb, on Carrier Records, is a disc of original works for clarinet and bassoon, collaboratively composed by Zachary Good and Ben Roidl-Ward. There are six tracks on the disc, 'Fairchild', '2pm front room', 'Guby', 'Rege', 'Prid', and 'Arb' which seem to tantalisingly hint at subjects behind the music, but the pieces themselves are resolutely abstract. Each piece features […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-27 12:01:39
In Response To Lara Spencer’s Mockery Of Boys Doing Ballet, Two Of Dance’s Biggest Male Stars Lead A Giant Class In Times Square
On Monday morning, as Good Morning America host Lara Spencer was trying to make amends for her faux pas of last week, Travis Wall (of So You Think You Can Dance) and Robbie Fairchild (formerly of New York City Ballet, now well on his way to a Broadway career) led about 400 dancers through a […]
2018-11-13 16:12:00
Cleveland's Youth Orchestras Take the Stage and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week - Cleveland Scene
Cleveland SceneOberlin harpsichord professor Mark Edwards will tackle J.S. Bach's fiendish Goldberg Variations on Thursday, November 15 at 4:30 pm in Fairchild Chapel. This famous set of 30 variations on the bass line of a lovely little sarabande is not for the ...
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-04-18 13:33:06
Robert Fairchild's Blooming Post-New York City Ballet Career
"'I would rather try and fail than not try,' he says. He's applied that same philosophy to his career: Last fall, he decided to leave life as a ballet star behind to find out what possibilities might lie in musical theater, TV and film. In the course of our conversation, he repeats the same sentence […]
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