NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / May 1, 2025 / The Kiwi Ears Septet features a highly sophisticated architecture comprising seven drivers per side: one dynamic driver, four balanced ...

The music of The Microscopic Septet was the sound of jazz in 20th C. America: all of it, from Ellington to Ayler, bebop to Zorn, Dixieland to experimental, captured in a microcosm. It distilled the ...

Finding high-quality audio can be quite a challenge. Even though wireless earphones are super popular, true audiophiles still prefer wired options for the best sound experience. This is especially ...

Under the co-leadership of pianist Joel Forrester and soprano saxophonist Phillip Johnston, the Microscopic Septet made their mark on the Downtown scene in the '80s with a boisterous, genre-busting ...

Beethoven’s Septet has been one of his most popular chamber works ever since it was written. It was first performed in 1800, and was quite innovative for the time. The clarinet for example, has a role ...

In 1874, Scottish astronomer Ralph Copeland was an assistant to William Parsons, Earl of Rosse. In April, while scanning the constellation Leo with Parsons’ 72-inch speculum-mirror reflector — the ...

In a conversation a few years ago about the future of music, a composer friend bemoaned how tough it was to get new, large-scale works performed. "The economics of the symphony orchestra are against ...

Musicians and composers Phillip Johnston and Joel Forrester of The Microscopic Septet have reunited for the release of their two-volume History of the Micros: Seven Men in Neckties & Surrealistic ...