- Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev: “The Beginning and the End” (Aparté)
- Isabel Pfefferkorn: “Soaked in Color: From Purcell to Queen” (Fuga Libera)
- Awadagin Pratt, Roomful of Teeth, A Far Cry: “STILLPOINT” (New Amsterdam)
“The Beginning and the End”
Earlier this summer, I was in Athens with Joyce DiDonato and the orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro as part of their EDEN tour—an ambitious multi-year program that will see the musicians perform on six continents and offer a host of workshops for local children’s choirs. While DiDonato and I shared a 30-minute taxi ride from Schisto refugee camp back into the city center after an afternoon of music workshops, I’d gotten more bonding time with the handful of musicians from Pomo d’Oro who joined for the outing. (Once a band kid, forever a band kid.)