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Tectonics Festival Day 1 Reviewed

From NYTimes.com:

It was the first of three events over successive evenings at the Tectonics Festival New York, the second annual spinoff of an event that the conductor Ilan Volkov started in Iceland in 2012. Thursday’s concert took place where it did for a simple reason: an organ. The core of the program was a flurry of contemporary solo organ works, starting with James Rushford’s performance of Morton Feldman’s “Principal Sound” (1980), with its vibrating, shifting sonic waves shot through with stun-gun pulsations.


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