Review of Sonoran Storm

As I listened to Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s “Sonoran Storm” for solo viola, I was immediately struck with both a sense of aversion and pleasant satisfaction. Upon further listenings, I grew to appreciate various aspects of the piece and realized that my seemingly...

The Musical Vision of Johann Hamann

 Various religious traditions would define music as a manifestation of the harmony of the cosmos and the contingency of all things. Therefore, song joins together speech (itself a mediation of “heaven” and “earth”) and music: a marriage of the divine and human, the...