Reviews, interviews, & profiles.
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rehearsal · april 2026
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No. 01
Orchestra of St. Luke's premieres 'in song we conspire'
The New Yorker · Alex RossJanata's score begins almost imperceptibly, with a low pedal that you only realize is there once it has begun to change. By the time the chorus enters - a soft, collective utterance that seems to gather itself out of the strings - the effect is overwhelming.
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No. 01
JACK Quartet finds new depth in Janata's 'Vesper'
The Strad · Ariane TodesThe string quartet's three nocturnes and a dawn - twenty-two minutes of breath and silence - were given a reading of extraordinary intimacy. JACK seemed to find, inside the score, the shape of a private grief working itself toward acceptance.
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No. 02
The Crossing illuminates Janata's 'Magnificat'
Philadelphia Inquirer · David Patrick StearnsDonald Nally led his ensemble through a setting of remarkable transparency. Janata's vocal writing is choral in the truest sense - eleven minutes that feel less like a composition than a prayer arrived at collectively, in real time.
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Alarm Will Sound brings 'GRAVI' to vivid life
The Boston Globe · Jeremy EichlerPierson's ensemble is famous for its precision, but here, in nine minutes of weighted, gravitational sound, what they offered was something rarer - the willingness to let a piece breathe at exactly its own tempo.
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