By Dawoud Kringle On Tuesday, May 21st, 2019, the New York Composers Circle presented “New Music for Ensembles and Electronics;” a concert of music by several of its members. The event was hosted by the National Opera Center.
Text by Dawoud Kringle The Trump tariff fiasco has reached a predictable outcome. China played its hand as well as it could have. The thing that Trump and his like cannot understand is that China rarely thinks in terms of short term gains: they think in terms of decades and centuries. Trump underestimated them, and US businesses […]
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle Artist: Mehmet Polat & Embracing ColoursTitle: Quantum LeapLabel: Aftab RecGenre: World music
Text by Dawoud Kringle For the third year in a row, the Trump Administration repeated its efforts to destroy the arts in the US. The White House has proposed a federal budget that would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which supports PBS […]
By Dawoud Kringle The U.S. government has been operating under a partial shutdown since Dec. 22, 2018. Trump is in political battle, holding our nation hostage for the $5.7 billion down payment to fund a wall along the border with Mexico.
