Posts TaggedZachary Good

Track Premiere: Zachary Good “Paco’s one hundred years”

Zachary Good’s “Paco’s one hundred years” drifts with quiet power, each phrase a gentle gesture stretched across time. Four clarinets move in near-unison, their tones warbling just enough to catch the light differently with each pass. The repeating melody is both captivating and serene, a hypnotic reverie that feels like messages written in clouds, always […]

Zachary Wood and Ben Roidl-Ward “arb”

I’ve been having a real bassoon renaissance the past month or so and my obsession led me to this gem from bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward and clarinetist Zachary Good (plus, another mention of Dana Jessen’s incredible Winter Chapel, also on Carrier). With arb the two grind out deep, hollow drones. There’s this wonderful quality to these pieces where the […]