First-Rate Performance Aug 23, 2008
Leading up to Greenwood's opus were new-music classics by John Adams and Arvo Prt, together with more recent winners by Oakland composers Fred Frith and Mason Bates. And the point was clear throughout: If you like this kind of thing, there's tons more where that came from. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Masters of Improvisation Music lineup Jul 31, 2008
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A Unique Sound Feb 3, 2008
Bittov, who turns 50 this year, made her first trip to New York in 1989, performing at the Knitting Factory with guitarist Fred Frith and cellist Tom Cora. She credits Frith with igniting the passion for improvisation that has shaped her music ever since. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Virtuoso singer-violinist breaks down borders Nov 6, 2007
Bittova has a nonpareil style that lands in some previously undiscovered intersection between the classical music to which she has paid tribute in her recordings of Moravian-born composer Leos Janacek and the Hungarian melodies of Bela Bartok (as well as in her performances in a recent New York production of Mozart's Don Juan and on a new CD of the solemn works of Slovakian composer Vladimir Godar, many written specifically for her), the outlandishness of improvisers such as Fred Frith (who... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
* Hot deals for cool vacations Oct 10, 2007
Among them will be the Japanese sound performer Keiji Haino, the American experimental hip-hop group Daelek, the Italian duo My Cat Is an Alien, and the pioneering English guitarist Fred Frith. In the middle of all this is Prague's Bollywood Film Festival from Oct. 11 to 14 (www. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Fall Arts Preview Sep 9, 2007
9/20: Works by Fred Frith with Contemporary Improvisation Department, members of Callithumpian Consort. 9/26: Russell Sherman, piano. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Rob Zombie meets Michael Myers Aug 18, 2007
") He also adopted wholesale the jagged East Village aesthetic of strength through adversity -- living briefly on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side, where the Alleged Gallery scene would soon produce equally unlikely directors Spike Jonze and Mike Mills, or at 13th and A, where within a one-block radius resided underground filmmaker Richard Kern, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred Frith, proto-punk Richard Hell and Beat legend Allen Ginsberg. "Those were the last good years -- after that it all... (Los Angeles Times)
A hard act to crack Mar 4, 2007
One funny thing about Henry Cow is that five crucial years elapsed between the bands formation in 1968 (when guitarist Fred Frith and sax player Tim Hodgkinson got together) and the recording of the debut album Leg End. In the intervening time, Henry Cows members became student activists while developing a collective attitude towards their music. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
